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Lot 307:
A Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Bowl, Tek Sing Shipwreck
Description
A Chinese blue and white porcelain bowl, identified as originating from the early 19th-century Tek Sing shipwreck. The exterior features underglaze painted decoration depicting a figural scene with a robed man holding a fan or scroll, possibly other figures, and floral elements like bamboo and flowers, rendered in a traditional East Asian style. The interior has a central blue abstract mark within double concentric lines. The unglazed foot rim and glazed base display a four-character blue underglaze mark, likely Chinese, also within double concentric circles. The base also bears adhesive labels, including one from “NAGEL AUKTIONEN” and various handwritten lot numbers such as “285” and “TS 76.” This artifact is part of the cargo from the famous Chinese trading junk, the Tek Sing (True Star), which sank in 1822. Each piece bears the original collection label from Nagel’s auction house in Stuttgart, Germany, where the cargo was publicly sold in November 2000.
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