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Bowl

Title

Bowl

Year/Period

1752

Region

China

Dimension

Object size: H7.4 x Dia15.0 cm

Accession No.

C-1257

Collection of

Asian Civilisations Museum

Credit Line

Gift of Captain Michael Hatcher and Royal Selangor Pte Ltd

This bowl has a landscape and floral design with a brown-glazed exterior.It was part of the 'Nanking Cargo', retrieved from the Geldermalse, a Dutch East India Company ship, wrecked in the South China Sea on its homeward journey with tea, blue and white porcelain and gold ingots.One hundred thousand tea and coffee cups with saucers were shipped annually to Holland at this time. Handles on cups became fashionable after 1760. ‘Batavia ware’ with brown-glazed exteriors, was exported to Europe in small quantities.