This saucer has a landscape design in underglaze cobalt blue.The saucer along with other porcelain ware, were retrieved from the wreck of Vung Tau, an Asian trading vessel off the south coast of Vietnam. The cargo included cups, bowls, saucers and oil lamps, which were probably made at kilns in other southern Chinese provinces such as Fujian rather than at Jingdezhen.Vung Tau was bound for Batavia (now Jakarta), from where the Dutch East India Company transhipped the porcelain to Europe. The Vung Tau ceramics reveal how Western demand for porcelain played a direct and influential role in ceramic production. The West supplied specific models for Chinese potters to reproduce in porcelain, consciously copying western metal and glass shapes.
