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THE BETTY GERTZ
‘HATCHER CARGO’ COLLECTION
(Lots 250 to 263)

In a landmark 1984 sale in Amsterdam Christie’s offered Chinese
porcelain from a 1640s shipwreck salvaged by the then-unknown
Captain Michael Hatcher. In the audience sat three friends and
fellow ceramics enthusiasts, Antwerp tastemaker Axel Vervoordt, the
late dealer/scholar David Howard, and Betty Gertz of Dallas. Betty’s
wonderfully eclectic and erudite personal collection graced frst her
large Georgian style Dallas house (featured in Southern Accents
in March-April 2002) and more recently her stunning new Dallas
house, tucked inside a walled garden (and featured in Architectural
Digest in December 2015), both collaborations between Betty and
Axel Vervoordt, who designed special white brackets for the Hatcher
blue and white. The frst half of Betty’s ‘Hatcher’ collection came
to auction in January 2015 to great acclaim. We are proud to offer
here the second half, affording more collectors the opportunity to
acquire these appealing porcelain wares, made at Jingdezhen in the
fascinating period before the Qing asserted control over the kilns and
250 then rescued from the sea in the early 1980s.

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A GROUP OF ‘HATCHER CARGO’
A ‘HATCHER CARGO’ BLUE AND FOUR SMALL ‘HATCHER CARGO’ BLUE AND WHITE MINIATURES
WHITE KENDI BLUE AND WHITE KENDI TRANSITIONAL, MID 17TH-CENTURY
TRANSITIONAL, MID-17TH CENTURY TRANSITIONAL, MID-17TH CENTURY
Comprising twenty four vases of
With dish-shaped spout, together 5 in. (13 cm.) high (4) various shapes and sizes, three bowls,
a saucer dish and a bird feeder.
with a small wall-bracket $4,000-6,000 4 in. (10 cm.) diam., the bowls (29)

8 in. (20 cm.) high (2) $4,000-6,000

$4,000-6,000

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