Jane Short Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
This pair is in perfect condition.
History of the Teksing Shipwreck.
The vessel which weighed a thousand tons was manned by a crew of 200 and had approx. 1600 passengers. The Tek Sing's captain, Io Tauko, decided to attempt a shortcut through the Gaspar Strait between the Bangka-Belitung Islands, and ran aground on a reef. The junk sank in about 30m of water.
The next morning, February 7, 1822 , an English East Indiaman captained by James Pearl sailing from Indonesia to Borneo passed through the Gaspar Strait. The ship encountered debris from the sunken Chinese vessel and an enormous number of survivors. The English ship managed to rescue about 190 of the survivors. Another 18 persons were saved by a wangkang, a small Chinese junk captained by Jalang Lima. This Chinese vessel may have been sailing in tandem with the Tek Sing, but had avoided the reefs.
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".
On May 12, 1999, British marine salvor Michael Hatcher discovered the wreck of the Tek Sing in an area of the South China Sea north of Java, east of Sumatra and south of Singapore. His crew raised the large cache of Chinese porcelain. Human remains were also found, but they were not disturbed as most of Hatcher's crew, being Indonesian and Chinese, believed that bad luck would befall any who disturbed the dead.
The Tek Sing's recovered cargo was auctioned at Nagel Auctions in Stuttgart, Germany in November 2000.
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Jane Short Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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Chinese Teksing Shipwreck Bowls. Pair. C1822
