RARE SOTHEBY\'S KRAAK SYMBOLS DISH - CA MAU CARGO
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RARE SOTHEBY\'S KRAAK SYMBOLS DISH - CA MAU CARGO:
$305.05
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One of the rarest,most beautifulplate types known from the famous Ca Mau shipwreck, dating to the Yongzheng Period of China\'s Qing Dynasty (1723-1735). Dish has a 3-Dimensional effect surrounding the central motif and in fact features a six sided Buddhist wheel surrounded by \'precious objects\'. A rare dish in exceptionally good condition given a history of almost 300 years.
Theplate depicts a beautiful multi-window scene with varioussymbolicmotifs. The central window contains a hexagonal border withblossoming sun-flowers, surrounded by swastika and scale motif. The cavetto (sloping inner surface) contains windows of sunflowers, poppy bulbs, swastikas and scales.
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 ships 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.
Ceramics from the Ca Mau wreck can now be found on display in the world\'s top museums, including the Victoria and Albert and the British museum.
Diameter:6 1/4inches.
Condition: Excellent, unrestored. No chips or hairlines. No damage to item from marine Mau wreck. Salvaged 1998 and catalogued by the Vietnamese authorities.
This is a hard to find Ca Mau ceramic with official excavation number and Ca Mau sticker, indicating that it was legally removed and catalogued by the Vietnamese Authorities. Similar pieces without provenance, almost certainly sourced from the illicit Bangkok art market, should be avoided as their investment value and legality are dubious. Since the ratification of the UNESCO convention, cooperative ventures between South East Asian countries and salvage companies have been effectively halted. Hence, well provenanced antique Shipwreck Ceramics are no longer appearing freshly on the market. Pieces such as this therefore constitute a finite resource and are some of the best investments available on the art market as a whole. Item sells for 460 GBP elsewhere - so this item is extremely attractive!
Reference: Please see Tau Co Ca Mau (The Ca Mau shipwreck), 1723-1735 by Dinh Chien
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RARE SOTHEBY\'S KRAAK SYMBOLS DISH - CA MAU CARGO:
$305.05