
Small Hatcher Cargo Blue Ground Box and Cover
Decorated with a single Prunus flower floating among waves on a blue ground
Chinese C1643
Diameter 1 15/16″ (4.8 cm )
Condition; perfect
This box is from a wreck of a cargo boat which sunk in 1643
The cargo was salvaged by Captain Michael Hatcher and sold at Christies Amsterdam in 1984
This cargo is very significant in terms of the dating of these late ming ceramics