A STUDY COLLECTION OF SHIPWRECK PORCELAIN 17th to 18th century Comprising: a pair of blue and white gu-form vases each divided into smaller panels enclosing Dutch architecture and flowers; three blue and white domed covers each with a bud-form finial, one decorated with Dutch architecture and flowers, one with landscape scenes, and another with floral sprays; an assemblage of fused blue and white 'Swatow' sherds, the most complete of which is a blue and white 'deer' dish; and a figure of a squatting boy holding a flower with a splash of green and yellow glaze. The vases: 30cm (12in) high. (7). Footnotes: 十七至十八世紀 沉船瓷雜項一組 Provenance: The Vung Tau cargo (the pair of vases)(collector's notes) Binh Thuan Shipwreck (the sherds)(collector's notes) The Diana Cargo (the boy)(collector's notes) Christie's Amsterdam, 7th and 8th April 1992 (the pair of vases)(collector's notes) Christie's Amsterdam, 6th and 7th March 1995 (the boy)(collector's notes) Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, 2003 (the sherds)(collector's notes) Acquired from Phillips, March 2005 (the pair of vases)(collector's notes) Published and Illustrated: M. White, Living at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol. 4, n.p., 2023, p.314-315 (the pair of vases and the Dutch architecture decorated cover) Exhibited: Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, Chinese Ceramics and the Early Modern World, 2010, no.24 (the pair of vases) In 1989 a Vietnamese fisherman made the chance discovery of the Vung Tau Cargo by trawling the sea-bed on the Southern Coast of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The cargo was salvaged by the state owned Vietnam Salvage Corporation in a joint-venture operation with the Singapore based Swedish diving expert, Sverker Hallstrom. The ship was an Asian trading vessel that had been burnt to the waterline and was almost certainly bound for Indonesia from China. Batavia (now Jakarta) was the centre of the enormous Dutch East India Company (VOC) where a mixed consignment would have been prepared for the homeward run to Amsterdam or elsewhere along the Netherlandish seaboard. There was little to date the wreck except a few coins of the reign of the emperor Kangxi (1662-1722) and an inkstick bearing the cyclical date corresponding to AD 1690. The Binh Thuan shipwreck was discovered in 2001 off the coast of Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam and was carrying a supply of early 17th century blue and white Chinese ceramics originating from the Zhangzhou kilns in Fujian Province. The Diana was a Calcutta ship licenced by the English East India Company to sail from Calcutta or Madras to Canton. The ship sank off the Straits of Malacca on 14th March 1817 on a return voyage from Canton. The wreck was identified and recovered in 1994 by Dorian Ball of Malaysian Historical Salvors. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing