Bidspirit auction | Chinese Export Nanking Cargo Porcelain

Chinese Export Nanking Cargo Porcelain Plate - Chinese export Nanking cargo shipwreck blue and white porcelain salad plate or dish, Qianlong ca. 1750. Decorated with a landscape with pagodas. Provenance: Christie's, Amsterdam, ”The Nanking Cargo - Chinese Export Porcelain, ” 28 April - 2 May 1986, Lot 2666; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Lot Essay: From the wreck of the Geldermalsen, a Dutch East India Company merchant ship traveling from China to the Netherlands when it hit a coral reef and sank in the South China Sea, 1752. British explorer and marine salvage expert Michael Hatcher recovered porcelain and gold ingots from the shipwreck in 1985. Diameter: 7 in. Condition: There are a few minute chips/frits to the rim. One hairline crack extending inwards from the rim to the footrim. Light crazing forming to the glaze. No visible restorations.