THE GELDERMALSEN History and Porcelain Antique Chinese Porcelain Jorg, C.J.A

THE GELDERMALSEN History and Porcelain

Very interesting book about the Chinese shipwreck porcelain

History and Porcelain, illustrations from colour photographs (of the porcelain, see examples below) and b&w reproductions of drawings, paintings, plans and maps, appendices listing the cargo and the crew from contemporary documents, notes and bibliography, text entirely in English, signed by the author on the half-title (see picture below), 124 pp, green boards in d/w, edges of pages a little browned, top edge of d/w creased at rear, otherwise in very good condition, Kemper Publishers (Groningen, Netherlands) 1986

In December 1985 I received a telephone call from Christie's in Amsterdam. Michael Hatcher had found a new ship with over 150,000 pieces of porcelain. Most of it was already in Amsterdam for an auction in '86. My acquaintance with Htcher datesback to 1984. At that time there was an auction at Christie's of mid-17th century porcelain, which Hatcher had recovered from the wreck of a Chinese junk. But if this fins had really come from a Dutch ship, then which East Indiaman could it be? The most obvious candidate was the Geldermalsen, which had sunk on her homeward voyage in 1752.--Preface.

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