Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo Rare Porcelain Seated Hound Dog Figure c1725


Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo Rare Porcelain Seated Hound Dog Figure c1725

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Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo Rare Porcelain Seated Hound Dog Figure c1725:
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H7cm L3.4cmD2.1cm I only have three ofthese charming hounds available, each slightly differing in detail, eachequally as desirable and decorative as the other. (This listing is for onehound only)Ca Mau Cargo c1725 The wreck was discovered by fisherman working off the Ca Maupeninsular when their nets snagged on it. When they realised the porcelain wassaleable they began dredging up as much as possible. Once the VietnameseMinistry of Culture and Information realised what was happening they moved inquickly to secure the wreck site.The excavation was lead by the Curator of The National Museum of Vietnameseculture. As you can see by the underside of the piece, not only does it havethe Sotheby’s sale sticker but the reference numbers of the Vietnameseconservators. In all, 130,000 pieces were recovered and 76,000 of the finercondition 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). Disasterstruck off the Ca Mau peninsular, there was a fire on board so severe that someof the porcelain was fused together. There were a few wine cups recoveredbearing the mark of the Emperor Yangzheng who reigned from 1723 to 1735. Bythis time tea and coffee was the rage throughout Europe and the principaltraders 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 somost of what they imported in these year was tea wares. All these shipwreckslike the Ca Mau are regarded as time capsules packed with information allowingmaritime historians and archaeologists an insight into the life and trade ofthe time.
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Ca Mau Chinese Shipwreck Cargo Rare Porcelain Seated Hound Dog Figure c1725:
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