Sold Ceramics - Sold Shipwreck Porcelains - The Diana Cargo, 1817 - Page 1

Object 2010669

Bowl

China

c.1816

Provenance: The Diana Cargo sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 6-7 March 1995

Height 79 mm (3.11 inch), diameter of rim 175 mm (6.89 inch), diameter of footring 75 mm (2.95 inch), weight 412 grams (14.53 ounce (oz.))

Bowl on footring, straight sides and slightly flaring rim. Decorated in underglaze blue with writhing young chilongs (sea dragons) and flames. Marked on the base with a shop / seal mark, underglaze blue. On the bowl the original 'Christie's Diana Cargo March 1995' sale lot 1026/36 label proving it has been one of 36 similar bowls sold in lot 1026.

In total 1272 graduated 'dragon' bowls, in various sizes, were sold divided over the lots: 1014-1041 & 1158-1187. (Amsterdam 1995)

Condition: A firing flaw to the rim.

References:

Amsterdam 1995, lot 1014-1041 & 1158-1187

Price: Sold.