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THE VUNG TAU CARGO 71
In 1989 a Vietnamese fisherman made the chance discovery of the A COLLECTION OF VUNG TAU CARGO CHINESE CELADON
‘Vung Tau Cargo’ by trawling the sea-bed on the Southern Coast of VASES
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The cargo was salvaged by the state Circa 1690
owned Vietnam Salvage Corporation in a joint-venture operation with Of high shouldered circular form,
the Singapore based Swedish diving expert, Sverker Hallstrom. The Each approximately 15cm diameter, 19.5cm high (10).
salvaged contents was subsequently sold at Christie’s Amsterdam
in a two-day sale of 1011 lots on 7th and 8th April 1992. The ship £600 - 800
was an Asian trading vessel that had been burnt to the waterline as €710 - 940
it was almost certainly bound for Indonesia from China. Batavia (now
Jakarta) was the centre of the enormous Dutch East India Company 72
(VOC) where a mixed consignment would have been prepared for the A COLLECTION OF VUNG TAU CARGO CHINESE CELADON
homeward run to Amsterdam or elsewhere along the Nederlandish VASES
seaboard. There was little to date the wreck except a few coins of the Circa 1690
reign of the emperor Kangxi (1662-1722) and an inkstick bearing the Of high shouldered tapered circular form.
cyclical date corresponding to AD 1690. The largest 29cm high (10).
£600 - 800
€710 - 940
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A PAIR OF CHINESE STRAITS PORCELAIN VASES
Circa 1880
Of baluster form brightly painted with precious objects, on a turquoise
ground and with applied pink dragons and lion handles.
35.5cm high (2).

£500 - 700
€590 - 820

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