Object Description
A group of blue and white glazed ceramic tableware comprising: a teapot with lid, loop handle, short spout and leaf motifs and six small cups and saucers with different blossom motifs
The samples recovered from the shipwrecked cargo are exclusively Chinese ceramics, in the main blue and white porcelain, all assessed by experts to be excellent examples of early Chinese Kangxi in origin of a quality indicating they were manufactured in the famous porcelain center of Jingdezhen in the Jiangsu Province. Jingdezhen kilns made porcelain over two millennia, since the Han Dynasty period. Blue and white porcelain was the most famous product of Jingdezhen, and reached the height of its technical excellence in the early Ching Dynasty. The very high quality cobalt blue colouring, distinctive on the early Kangxi period fine porcelains where it is referred to as ‘gem blue’ or ‘kingfisher blue’, is much purer and brighter than that of Ming Dynasty wares.
Dimensions:
– Teapot: Height 12.5 cm with the lid ; Diameter 10.0 cm
– Cup: Height 4.0 cm ; Diameter 7.3 cm
– Saucer: Height 2.0 cm ; Diameter 11.3 cm