BF 93 A pair of blue and white bowls

明崇禎 「哈察船貨」青花茶碗一對

Chongzhen, c.1643

The tea bowl is well potted with steeply rounded sides flaring towards a flared rim. The exterior is painted on both sides in a calligraphic painting style with a single orchid flower and a flying insect in between. The base has an apocryphal six-character mark of Chenghua.
Diameter 9 cm

This pair of bowls were amongst the ca 25.000 pieces salvaged from the South China Sea by Captain Michael Hatcher from a wrecked junk. Sold at Christie's June 1984 (label)

A similar bowl from the Hatcher wreck is illustrated in Julia Curtis, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century, Landscapes, Scholar's Motifs and Narratives, New York 1995, No 43

BF 93 明崇禎 「哈察船貨」青花茶碗一對
時代：明崇禎，約1643年。
特徵：此對茶碗的口部微外侈，碗身外側以意態昂揚的筆法描繪蘭草與飛蟲。足圈內書「大明成化年製」六字偽款。
尺寸：直徑9公分。
來源：此碗是哈察船長(Michael Hatcher)自中國南海的沈船中打撈獲得的收藏之一，出售於阿姆斯特丹佳士得1984年6月(標籤)。