26th Apr, 2023 11:00

Asian & Islamic Works of Art

 
Lot 16
 

16

SIXTEEN CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE NANKING CARGO SAUCERS, QIANLONG, CIRCA 1750

each painted to the interior with a diaper medallion enclosing a pine tree issuing from rockwork, 10cm diameter

Provenance: Property of a European Collector (see lot 8 for further details); Christie’s, ‘The Nanking Cargo’, Amsterdam, 28 April – 2 May 1986; Jim Williams, Mercer House, Savannah GA, sold Sotheby’s, ‘Mercer House, Savannah’, New York, 20 October 2000, lot 27 (part)

See footnote to previous item

One saucer with a 5mm., wide shallow rim chip, another saucer with an 8mm., shallow rim flake, another with a 2mm., rim chip, another with rim fritting and a 5mm., hairline rim crack; and minor fritting to other saucers.

Sold for £650


 

each painted to the interior with a diaper medallion enclosing a pine tree issuing from rockwork, 10cm diameter

Provenance: Property of a European Collector (see lot 8 for further details); Christie’s, ‘The Nanking Cargo’, Amsterdam, 28 April – 2 May 1986; Jim Williams, Mercer House, Savannah GA, sold Sotheby’s, ‘Mercer House, Savannah’, New York, 20 October 2000, lot 27 (part)

See footnote to previous item