The Legacy of Tek Sing

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Porcelain-Round bowl ca.170 mm vor 1822. White glazed dish with swelled body and slightly everted rim. High, slightly inverted foot, glaze on inner and outer side. Nagel TS132

The Legacy of Tek Sing

The "Titanic of the East" sank in 1822
The ship transported nearly 1600 passengers and Chinese porcelain of extreme value
In 1999 the sunken wreck and its treasure was finally discovered

The Tek Sing was a large Chinese ocean-going junk which sank in 1822 in the South China Sea near the Belvidere Shoals. The ship was manned by a crew of 200 and had nearly 1600 passengers. It was also laden with a large cargo of porcelain of extreme value. The great loss of life associated with the sinking has led to the Tek Sing being referred to in modern times as the "Titanic of the East". In 1999 treasure hunter Michael Hatcher discovered the wreck of the Tek Sing. His crew raised about 350,000 pieces of the ship's cargo in what is described as the largest sunken cache of Chinese porcelain ever recovered.

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Category 1	Ancient Objects
Category 2	China
Category 3	Porcelain
Material	Porcelain
Catalogue	Nagel TS132
Diameter	ca.170 mm
Objekt	Round bowl
Time	vor 1822
Item Number	GOBJ22