Bidspirit auction | Pr Chinese Export Nanking Cargo

Pr Chinese Export Nanking Cargo Dinner Plates - Pair of Chinese export Nanking cargo shipwreck blue and white porcelain dinner plates with scalloped rims decorated with gilt, Qianlong ca. 1750. Decorated with a landscape with pagodas. Provenance: Christie's, London, ”The Nanking Cargo Chinese Export Porcelain and Gold European Glass and Stoneware, ” 28 April - 2 May 1986, Lot 4616; 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. (Each) diameter: 12 1/2 in. Condition: There are hairline cracks to the faces of each plate. Fritting to small-sized chips to the rim. Complete loss of gilt; the areas that were gilt can be seen under a raking late and appear as pale lines of decoration.