Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo Pheasant Pattern Tea Bowl and Saucer c1725


Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo Pheasant Pattern Tea Bowl and Saucer c1725

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Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo Pheasant Pattern Tea Bowl and Saucer c1725:
$337.41


Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Porcelain Cargo Pheasant Pattern Tea Bowl and Saucer c1725With one Pheasant in flight above another perched on a rock in a garden landscape.
the rim has a hatched border.
Size: Saucer 10.8cm in diameter Tea Bowl 6.7cm in diameter
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Ca Mau Cargo Shipwreck Story c1725The wreck was discovered by fisherman working off the Ca Mau peninsular when their nets snagged on it.
When they realised the porcelain was saleable they began dredging up as much as possible. Once the Vietnamese
Ministry of Culture and Information realised what was happening they moved in quickly to secure the wreck site. The excavation was lead by the Curator of The National Museum of Vietnamese culture. As you can see by the
underside of the piece, not only does it have the Sotheby’s sale sticker but the reference numbers of the Vietnamese
conservators. In all, 130,000 pieces were recovered and 76,000 of the finer condition pieces were selected to be sold by Sotheby’s. The ship was a Chinese ocean going junk, almost certainly en route from Canton (now Kuangzhou) to the Dutch trading port of
Batavia (now Jakarta). Disaster struck off the Ca Mau peninsular, there was a fire on board so severe that some of the porcelain was
fused together. There were a few wine cups recovered bearing the mark of the Emperor Yangzheng who reigned from 1723 to 1735. By this time tea and coffee was the rage throughout Europe and the principal traders were the East India Company and the VOC
of Amsterdam. With the demand for tea came demand for porcelain by which to drink it and so most of what they imported in
these year was tea wares. All these shipwrecks like the Ca Mau are regarded as time capsules packed with information allowing maritime historians and
archaeologists an insight into the life and trade of the time. Here is an opportunity to own a piece of history with a fascinating story.

Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo Pheasant Pattern Tea Bowl and Saucer c1725:
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