A collection of Chinese blue and white 'Diana Cargo' plates and bowls, early 19th C.

Dia.: 28,1 cm (the plates)

H 8,3 - 8 cm - Dia.: 17,5 - 16,8 cm (the tallest and the smallest bowl)

Condition:
- Five dishes in excellent condition.
- One with a baking crack on the rim.
- One with a baking crack on the rim and a small rim chip.
- Three bowls in excellent condition.
- One with one rim chip of ca. 1 cm.
- Two with a small number of 1-2 mm chips on the rim.

The items with a Christie's label at the back.

The Diana hit on the 14th of March 1817 some rocks of the Straits of Malacca and sank. The wreck - with tons of beautiful blue and white porcelain - was identified and recovered in the nineties by Dorian Ball. Christie's auctioned the porcelain cargo in Amsterdam in March 1995 (link).