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A charming Antique Porcelain Dog dating to the Yongzheng Period of China's Qing Dynasty (1723-1735) and salvaged from the Ca Mau shipwreck.
This wonderful little dog is a fine example of Chinese export porcelain, made for the European market in the early 1700's. The dog is extremely life like, and is shown with his mouth open, ears pricked up and neck arched in anticipation. The Artist has paid great attention to detail, with even the animal's ribs being visible.
It was exported from Jingdezhen (a Kiln in southern China) on the Ca Mau vessel, a Junk bound for the port of Jakarta, modern day Indonesia. The Junk, or large trade vessel, was capitalizing on the booming business of Chinese Export porcelain. The beginning of the 18th Century saw an insatiable appetite for Chinese ceramics sweep across most of Europe, with coffee and tea drinking a new and popular pass-time for the wealthy and middle-class alike.
Archaeologists have discerned that the final hours of the Ca Mau were spent ablaze, as the crew failed to control a fire on the ships deck. She finally sunk thirty nautical miles off the Ca Mau peninsula in southern Vietnam, her memory lost until fishermen happened upon her whilst trawling in 1998.
Height: 2 3/4 inches.
Provenance: Ca Mau wreck. Salvaged 1998 and catalogued by the Vietnamese authorities - for reference please see Tau Co Ca Mau (The Ca Mau shipwreck), 1723-1735 by Dinh Chién.
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