Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Pair of Chinese blue and white wine cups, with flared conical bowls with everted rims, each painted with four flaming wheel Buddhist emblems with six-character Chenghua mark to the base. Diameter: approximately 6.8cm. (2 3/4in.). Provenance : Private Collection from the Hatcher Collection , Chongzhen (1627-44)
Notes:
The Captain Hatcher Collection refers to the historic "Hatcher Cargo," an immense hoard of 17th-century Chinese porcelain salvaged from a shipwrecked Chinese junk in the South China Sea by explorer Captain Michael Hatcher in 1983.The salvaged cargo, consisting of approximately 25,000 unbroken porcelain pieces, was sold by Christie's Amsterdam across a landmark series of four highly publicised auctions between 1984 and 1985
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