Three Chinese blue and white porcelain Diana cargo tea bowls and saucers, circa 1816

each painted with lakeland scenes with pagodas
11cm diameter

Provenance:
Christie's, Amsterdam, 1995, lots 588 and 590
The Frank Herrmann collection

The Diana was owned by Palmer and Co. and was licenced by the English East India Company to sail from Calcutta or Madras to Canton, carrying cotton and opium. The ship would return to India from China laden with silks, tea, preserved fruits and many thousands of pieces of blue and white porcelain. Unfortunately, on 14th of March 1817, the Diana hit rocks off the Straits of Malacca and sank. The wreck was identified and recovered in 1994 by Dorian Ball of the Malaysian Historical Salvors.

Condition Report

all good - sea washed slightly.

one saucer with tiny rim chip and firing flaw in rim