Including: a 'Deer Tempting' tea saucer, 11cm; an 'Over the Wall' pattern saucer, 11.5cm; a 'Searching for Plum Blossom' saucer, 11.5cm; an 'Old Man and Boy' saucer, 11.4cm; a 'Fallow Deer' pattern saucer, 12.5cm; and a 'Picking Willow' saucer, 11.2cm. (6)A private English collector, all bearing Sotheby's Ca Mau - Binh Thuan auction labels, acquired by the present vendor from various sources.The Ca Mau wreck was discovered in 1998 by Vietnamese fishermen near the southernmost province of the country. Believed to have sunk after it caught fire, the ship was bound for Batavia (now Jakarta), laden with ceramics for the Dutch market in around 1725. The cache of 76,000 pieces of blue and white porcelain were first offered on the market at Sotheby's Amsterdam rooms in 2007.Deer Tempting: minor glaze wear/erosionOver the Wall: minor glaze wear/erosion, fine hairline to rimSearching for Plum Blossom: minor glaze wear/erosion, tiny firing fracture off centreOld Man and Boy: minor glaze wear/erosion, fine hairline to rimFallow Deer: minor glaze wear/erosion, two minuscule glaze pinholesPicking Willow: minor glaze wear/erosion, section of rim broken and re-glued
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