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Vung Tau Cargo Pottery Lamp c1690
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
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Pottery:
Pre 1900 item# 1111414
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Roger Bradbury Antiques
+44(0)1603737444
£145.00
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This Charming, Simple lamp is a shallo bowl with a piece of clay thumbed on the rim as a handle.
It is made of hard fired, Red burning clay and was to be filled with fat or oil and a wick. Of all
the types of ceramics in the Vung Tau Cargo, These very ordinary pieces have a quite romance, One
can actually see the finger print of the potter on the handle, in turn bringing in a personal touch
which bridges time and cultures.
Size: 9cm in diameter.
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Nanking Cargo "Flying Geese" Dish c1750
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
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Porcelain:
Pre 1900 item# 1111412
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Roger Bradbury Antiques
+44(0)1603737444
£225.00 P&PUK£13.00 P&PInternational£14.00
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Please look at the size of this dish, then one will realise that it was
intended for food . The dish is painted with a fisherman seated
in his boat on a wide river landscape, the near rocky bank with a two storey
pagoda beside pine, prunus and wutong, The distant bank with pine. In the sky
is a flock of geese flying in a classical shaped formation. Around the rim is a Trellis
pattern.
Please do contact me for a postage quotation UK and International shipping, Thank you
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Nanking Cargo Vomit Pot c1750
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Chinese:
Porcelain:
Pre 1900 item# 1111411
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Roger Bradbury Antiques
+44(0)1603737444
£950.00 P&PUK£15.00 P&PInternational£19.00
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This extremely interesting and rare piece has an amusing story of typical shipwreck cargos proving that they really do act as time capsules.
In the Christies Catalogue the are described as "childs chamber pot" but common sence tells us that they were for babies. Christian Jorg in hi book "The Geldermalsen" got it right, he says;
"The custom to use special porcelain vomit pots after a rather too copious dinner has obviously
not been fashionable for very long.
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