ginger-jar BM-1995-0619.1.a-b

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1816
Materials:porcelain
Technique:painted, glazed,
Subjects:seascape
Dimensions:Diameter: 12 centimetres (lid) Height: 22 centimetres (jar)

Description:
Blue and white porcelain ginger jar is decorated with a sea scape and with a flat lid. Both have sea shells attached.
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Comments:The Diana, a merchant ship of the Honourable East India Company was wrecked in the Malacca Straits on 4 March 1817. She was a Company ship, trading between Canton and India, carrying a cargo of Chinese porcelain, tea and spices. Her porcelain cargo of 24,000 pieces was intended for sale to merchant based in Calcutta, for their own use and for shipment on to England. The salvage expert Dorian Ball worked closely with the Malaysian Government on the retrieval of the cargo of the Diana between 1991 and 1994. The salvage operation was carried out under licence of the Malaysian Government, consequently many of the pieces from the cargo were presented to the Malaysian National Museum and the remainder sold at auction at Christie’s Amsterdam.