Sold Ceramics - Sold Shipwreck Porcelains - The Ca Mau Shipwreck, c.1725 - Page 1

Object 2010799

Saucer

China

c.1725

Provenance: Made in Imperial China. 76.000 pieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ca Mau shipwreck, circa 1725 sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 29, 30 & 31 January 2007.

Height 22 mm (0.87 inch), diameter of rim 120 mm (4.72 inch), diameter of footring 62 mm (2.44 inch)

Moulded saucer on footring. Decorated in underglaze blue with a central medallion of a bird watching the passing of an insect in an open garden, on the interior wall lappet panels of flowering landscapes, around the rim a border of zig-zag lines. On the base handwritten in black ink 'CM4-18.981', the original Sotheby's - UNICOM - CA MAU - BIN THUAN label with number 45157 and a rectangular paper label with '1027' in red overwritten with '73004B' in blue,

The design on this saucer is known as the 'Bird and Insect' pattern In total 460 teacups and saucers and 1,470 single saucers, with this design were sold. (Amsterdam 2007, lot 571-588)

Condition: Perfect.

Reference:

Amsterdam 2007, lot 571-588

Price: Sold.