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