Rare Qing Dynasty Chinese Kangxi Tall Beaker & Cover from Vung Tau Shipwreck

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Rare Qing Dynasty Chinese Kangxi Tall Beaker & Cover from Vung Tau Shipwreck:
$700.00

Rare porcelain tall beaker with a cover (Reign mark with Artemisia Leaf underneath), made around 1690 during the reign of emperor Kang Xi in the city of Jingdezhen, where the Chinese were producing world famous porcelain for teahouses in the Netherlands and other European countries. The tall beaker with cover is about 11” tall, 4.5” wide at the cover, and 3” wide at the base. The ship sank aroung 1690 near the Vietnamese city of Vung Tau and it is the earliest found porcelain on shipwrecks.

The funnel body is slightly flared and it bears a bowl domed base. The cover has a knopped finial and flaring rim.
The Vung Tau shipwreck was discovered by fishermen of the islands of Con Dao about 100 miles from Vung Tau, Vietnam. The wreck was of a lorcha boat—a Chinese vessel with Portuguese influences that has been dated to about 1690. It was found by a fisherman who had picked up numerous pieces of porcelain from the wreck while fishing.

An analysis of its cargo deduced that the ship was bound from China to Jakarta, Indonesia, where the porcelain would have been purchased by the Dutch East India Company for trans-shipment to Holland. A total of 48,288 items of fine Qing Dynasty (Kangxi 1662-1722) blue-and-white porcelain from Jingdezhen and other artifacts were recovered.

Christie’s, the British sale house, selected 28,000 pieces of porcelain for sale in Amsterdam in 1992. The sale house sold the porcelain for a total of USD 7.3 million. The Vung Tau Museum in Vietnam houses a representative sample of all the artifacts. The remainder of the ceramics were divided between Hallstrom and the Vietnamese government.