saucer with landscape, unknown maker from China

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saucer with landscape
saucer with landscape
saucer with landscape
1750s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
saucer with landscape , 1750s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Where object was made: China
Material/technique: porcelain; glaze
Dimensions:
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 2 x 11.7 cm
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 0 13/16 x 4 5/8 in
Credit line: Gift of James K. Rowland
Accession number: 2004.0045
Not on display
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Empire of Things
This small plate was recovered from the wreckage of the Dutch East Indian Company ship “The Geldermalsen,” which sank in the South China Sea in 1752. Records indicate that the cargo was packed in Canton and bound for Amsterdam. When the wreck was excavated, it yielded a rich assortment of blue-and-white saucers and cups that were designed for the new fashion of tea and coffee drinking in Europe.
Exhibition Label: "Circuits of Exchange: The Global Taste for Blue-and-White Ceramics," Mar-2009, Kris Ercums This small plate was recovered from the wreckage of the Dutch East Indian Company ship “The Geldermalsen” which sank in the South China Sea in 1752. Records indicate that the cargo was packed in Canton and bound for Amsterdam. When the wreck was excavated it yielded a rich assortment of blue-and-white saucers and cups that were designed for the new fashion of tea and coffee drinking in Europe.

Exhibitions

Soundings: Making Culture at Sea
Celka Straughn, curator
CuratedByVoc, curator
Conversations in Clay: Ceramics from the Spencer Museum of Art Collection
Kris Ercums, curator
2022–2024
Empire of Things
Kris Ercums, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
2016–2021
Empire of Things
Kris Ercums, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
2013–2015
Reviving the Past: Antiquity & Antiquarianism in East Asian Art | Circuits of Exchange: The Global Taste for Blue-and-White Ceramics
Kris Ercums, curator
2009

Citations

The Nanking cargo Chinese export porcelain and gold European glass and stoneware recovered by Captain Michael Hatcher from a European merchant ship wrecked in the South China seas. Amsterdam: Christie's, 1986.