A Chinese Shipwreck (THE TEK SING) Porcelain Bowl with Shou Characters | Sank February 6th, 1822 Date: Mexico

Date: Mexico

Some further spots of light brown encrustation around the rim

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Reverse: PONTIF TR P X COS II Securitas seated on two cornucopiae to right

A Chinese Shipwreck (THE TEK SING) Porcelain Bowl with Shou Characters | Sank February 6th, 1822 Date: MexicoThis is a Chinese blue and white circular bowl decorated with a block print technique with a design of shou characters on lotus petals alternating with an elaborate stylised flower. The Tek Sing "True Star" was a large three masted Chinese ocean going junk which sank on February 6, 1822 in an area of the South China Sea known as the Belvidere Shoals. The vessel was 50 meters in length, 10 meters wide, and weighed about a thousand tons. Its tallest