Antique Chinese Export Blue and White Porcelain Tek Sing Charger Bowl Plate 11.25"

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Antique Chinese Export Blue and White Porcelain Tek Sing Charger Bowl Plate

11.25” diameter
2.5” height

Hairline cracks, scratches, crazing, … Read more Antique Chinese Export Blue and White Porcelain Tek Sing Charger Bowl Plate

11.25” diameter
2.5” height

Hairline cracks, scratches, crazing, stains present.

In 1822, the Tek Sing Cargo, loaded with silk and porcelain from China, sank in the waters off Indonesia. The sunken ship was salvaged by a commercial team in 1999, and the artifacts were then auctioned off.
The shipwreck's blue-white porcelain wares were all made at the Dehua kilns in southeast China's Fujian Province in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). See less