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Nanking Cargo, enamelled teapot and cover c1750 browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain: Pre 1800: item # 1146025
Roger Bradbury Antiques Skeyton Lodge, Skeyton +44(0)1603737444 Guest Book 520.00 P&PUK£23.00 P&PInternational£26.00 |
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| The Nanking cargo is the most famous of the shipwreck cargoes. It attracted world wide media attention when it was auctioned by Christies Amsterdam in April 1986.The ships name was 'The Geldermalsen' belonging to the Dutch East India Company. The (VerenigdeOostIndische Compagnie (V.O.C). She set sail from Canton on December 18th 1755 bound for Amsterdam. The valuable cargo consisted of over 160,000 pieces of porcelain, tea, raw silk, textiles and one hundred and forty five gold ingots. On January 3rd 1752 after 16 days sailing the Geldermalsen hit a reef and sank in the South China Sea. The cargo was recovered by Captain Michael Hatcher and his team in 1985-86, shipped to Amsterdam and sold two hundred and thirty four years late! I spent four days viewing the porcelain in order to select the nicer pieces. The auction which made £10,000,000 was one of the most fascinating I have ever been to, attracting very many bidders from all over the world both in room and on the telephone, everyone wanted a piece of the Nanking Cargo! How this teapot gets its name is self explanetory due to its shape being that of a canon ball. A solid silver or meissen porcelain teapot would have been sent to China from Europe and the next year it had been copied by highly skilled Chinese porcelain makers into this fine example that you see. the teapot is decorated with a flowering peony out of a rocky terrace. Please look carefully at the pictures because being one of only 75 made, I think this is a lovely rare and interesting piece to own. Size 23cm spout to handle 12 cm wide 10 cm deep | |||||||||
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