March Interiors
Timed Online Auction, 20 March - 2 April 2025
Furniture
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About this Item
Notes
A large cache of porcelain and other merchandise was discovered on the wreck of a Dutch East India Company ship, the Geldermalsen, which sank in the South China Seas in 1752 and was discovered in 1985.
The ship had been bound for Amsterdam from Canton when it crashed into a reef and sank along with its cargo of tea, raw silk, porcelain and gold ingots. Some 235 years after it set out on its journey, the cargo was recovered by Captain Michael Hatcher and sold at Christie's in Amsterdam in 1986.
Provenance
The Nanking Cargo Chinese Export Porcelain & Gold; sold Christie's, Amsterdam, 28 April - 2 May 1986,