This dish has a landscape-design interior in underglaze blue. The Dutch East India Company ship, the Geldermalsen, sank in 1752 in Southeast Asian waters, with a cargo of over two hundred thousand porcelain items on its homeward journey. The cargo comprised large quantities of dinner plates, tea cups and saucers, bowls, milk jugs and other matching tableware, which were in high demand in Europe during the 18th century.
