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LOT 2424
Tek Sing Treasure Shipwreck Glazed Blue and White Bowl
EARLY 19TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/4 in. (360 grams, 16 cm).
Tin-glazed bowl with everted rim and basal ring. central spiral with radiating foliage motifs to both faces. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Nagel Auction, with official Tek Sing Treasure labels to verso.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Footnotes
The Tek Sing (True Star) wreck is one of the famous recovery stories of the 20th century. Sailing from the port of Xiamen (then known as Amoy) in February 1822 the vessel Tek Sing was bound for Jakarta, Indonesia laden with porcelain goods and 1600 Chinese emigrants. The captain decided to pass through the Gaspar Strait, between the Bangka-Belitung Islands, and ran aground on a reef. The vessel sank in about 100 feet of water. The next morning, February 7, an English East Indiaman captained by James Pearl, passing through the same waters, encountered debris and some survivors and managed to rescue about 190 of the latter.
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