Ca 1690 Kangxi Chinese Porcelain Garniture Vung Tao Swastika Marked

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Condition Report: Size 145mm / 142mm / 150mm / 150mm / 150mm // Overall Condition A (Good) All lids are perfect, 1 vase with hairline in neck, 1 vase with tiny frit to rim, 1 vase with small chip from base rim.

Real collectors item. Vung Tao cargo Garniture, in very good condition and all marked with a Swastika at the base.

The Vung Tau Cargo

c.1690

The Vung Tau Wreck was discovered by fishermen of the islands of Con Dao in the south of Vietnam.
Sverker Hallstrom obtained the license to excavate the wreck after the Vietnam Salvage Corporation
(Visal) had carried out preliminary excavation. The starboard side of the hull, from the keel to the
waterline, remained in good condition. It was found to be the hull of a lorcha, a ship of combined
Eastern and Western influence, and the first ever found. The wreck has been dated to c.1690.
From an analysis of the cargo it seems that the ship was bound from China to Batavia where the
bulk of the ceramics would have been transhipped to a Dutch East India Company, (Verenigde
Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) vessel for the onward voyage to Holland.

The porcelain was destined for a port where it would have been transhipped onto a VOC vessel for the
onward voyage to Holland. The other goods were to supply the Chinese community at the same port.
That port was Batavia. Christie’s Amsterdam auctioned the porcelain cargo in April 1992.