bowl
- Museum number
- 2017,3013.2
- Description
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Blue and white porcelain kraak type bowl. This bowl is decorated with a border of galloping horses over waves above flowering plants outside and landscapes and Buddhist wheels inside.
- Production date
- 1643-1646
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 16.20 centimetres
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Height: 7.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Colin Sheaf, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes: The Complete Record, Phaidon Press, 1988
- Location
- On display (G33/dc34b/s3)
- Acquisition date
- 2017
- Acquisition notes
- From the collection of Helen and the late John Espir purchased on 13 June in 1993 at Olympia from Edward Shepherd a New York Dealer. Previously part of the Hatcher shipwreck cargo sold at Christies Amsterdam 14 March 1984. The sale of this shipwreck was officially approved and the British Museum brought a number of pieces in 1984 to 1986 from this sale.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2017,3013.2