Sold Ceramics - Sold Shipwreck Porcelains - The Hatcher Junk (1643-1646) - Page 1

Object 2012042

Bowl

China

c.1643

Provenance: The Hatcher Collection, Christie’s Amsterdam, 14 March 1984 or 12 and 13 June 1984.

Height 57 mm (2.24 inch), diameter of rim 115 mm (4.53 inch), diameter of footring 41 mm (1.61 inch), weight 161 grams (5.68 ounce (oz.))

Bowl on footring, spreading sides and a straight rim. Decorated in underglaze blue under a degraded glaze with two wide spread riverscapes. The inside is undecorated. On the base the remains of the original orange/red Hatcher Collection Christie's Amsterdam June '84, circular paper auction label.

For identically shaped and sized The Hatcher Collection bowls, please see:

• The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes. The Complete Record, (C. Sheaf & R. Kilburn, Oxford 1988), p.12, Pl.6.

• Sold Ceramics - Sold Shipwreck porcelains - The Hatcher Junk (1643-1646) - Object 2012040 & Object 2012041.

Condition: Three shallow glaze rough spots to the rim.

References:

Amsterdam 1985, pp.7-8

Sheaf & Kilburn 1988, pp.8-19 & Pl. 6

Price: Sold.