LOT 220 Chinese celadon Porcelain 16.5cm flower plate shipwreck
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Chinese celadon Porcelain 16 cm plate flower design, shipwreck
GELDERMALSEN, 1752 From our Shipwreck Porcelain Collection, a fine
crackled porcelain bowl, ex-Christie's, from the so-called "Nanking
Cargo," which is the term applied to the porcelain recovered from
the wreck of the Geldermalsen ship that sank on January 3rd, 1752. The
Geldermalsen was a cargo ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company
that struck a reef on its way back from Canton China, and sank off the
coast of Indonesia in the Linnga archipelago. It took with it to the
bottom of the sea over 150,000 ceramic pieces, nearly 700,000 pounds of
tea, as well as gold and other cargo. The ship lay submerged for over
230 years, before being salvaged by Michael Hatcher in 1984, where after
the recovered porcelain was sold through Christie's auction house. The
treasure was sold at Christies for 37 million guilders, about 50,000,000
euro today Nice shipwreck plate from the ship GELDERMALSEN. The ship
sunk on January 3, 1752. The wreck is found in 1984. The ship contained
over 160.000 pieces of porcelain. Some of the salvaged cargo of
Geldermalsen was auctioned in May 1986 at Christie's auction house in
Amsterdam. This is 1 part of it. Diameter: 6.5 inch. = 165 mm = 16.5 cm
Height: 1 5/8 inch. = 43mm = 4.3 cm Weight: 1 lb. = 450 g; Age: 1752 and older.
Condition
Fine, the bottom is covered with corals, no defect;
Low Estimate: 2000.0;
High Estimate: 5000.0;
Original: Yes;
Circa: 1750;
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