Qing Dynasty Antique Chinese Porcelain Ca Mau Cargo Shipwreck Peacock Tea Saucer
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Qing Dynasty Antique Chinese Porcelain Ca Mau Cargo Shipwreck Peacock Tea Saucer:
$69.00
An exceptional, well preserved and vibrant Chinese blue on white porcelain plate. Datingto the Yongzheng Period of China\'s Qing Dynasty (1723-1735) and salvaged from the Ca Mau shipwreck. An officially recorded piece with Sotheby\'s Ca Mau sticker and numbers.
We have purchased a large group of highly desirable ceramics salvaged from the famous Ca Mau cargo shipwreck. This is a great opportunity to purchase a genuine, well provenanced antique tea saucer at a bargain wholesale price. Ceramics from the Ca Mau are some of the best value antiques currently on the market!
Please note: The sale price is for one saucer, selected from the group shown.
One of the most attractive patterns known from the Ca Mau wreck - the plate depicts a beautiful multi-window scene with images of early China. The central tondo area depicts a proud squawking peacock, standing on a rocky outcrop amidst blossoming flowers. Surrounding the peacock lie eight windows depicting blossom, ship on river, flower, walking scholar, poppy, wet landscape, sunflowers and willow trees. The exterior of the plate is decorated with bamboo shoots. A very detailed, romantic depiction of early China that would have appealed as much to early European tastes as it does to us today.
This plate was exported from Jingdezhen (a Kiln in southern China) on the Ca Mau vessel, a Junk bound for the port of Jakarta, modern day Indonesia. The Junk, or large trade vessel, was capitalizing on the booming business of Chinese Export porcelain. The beginning of the 18th Century saw an insatiable appetite for Chinese ceramics sweep across most of Europe, with coffee and tea drinking a new and popular pass-time for the wealthy and middle-class alike.
Archaeologists have discerned that the final hours of the Ca Mau were spent ablaze, as the crew failed to control a fire on the ship\'s deck. She finally sank thirty nautical miles off the Ca Mau peninsula in southern Vietnam, her memory lost until fishermen happened upon her whilst trawling in 1998.
Similar pieces from the Ca Mau wreck can now be found on display in the world\'s top museums including the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Diameter: 5 inchesHeight: Condition:Excellent, some examples with minute chips or hairlines, all with beautiful glaze preservation and original Sotheby\'s stickers.Provenance:Ca Mau wreck. Salvaged 1998 and catalogued by the Vietnamese authorities.Location of the wreckAuthenticity
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Qing Dynasty Antique Chinese Porcelain Ca Mau Cargo Shipwreck Peacock Tea Saucer:
$69.00