Christie’s Amsterdam: The Nanking Cargo Chinese Export Porcelain and Gold European Glass and Stoneware

Harts Nijstad

Amsterdam

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Christie's

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1986

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26cm x 21cm. 272 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial cloth.

Recovered by Captain Michael Hatcher from a European merchant ship wrecked in the South China Seas. At the time was a record breaking auction of decorative arts with final sales reaching approximately ten million pounds. This copy with the bookplate of James Fairfax and a four page pamphlet for two additional lots of a pair of Dutch Bronze Cannons laid in.

. Near Fine Condition.