^Lot 1649 Chinese blue-on-white porcelain bowl, Ming Dynasty, very rare provenance, ex-Witte Leeuw (1613), ex-

Chinese blue-on-white porcelain bowl, Ming Dynasty, very rare provenance, ex-Witte Leeuw (1613), ex-Sotheby-Parke-Bernet. 175 grams. 2" tall x 5¾" in diameter. A beautiful bowl with a floral-ribbon design in very deep and vivid blue under glaze, the slightly scalloped rim nearly intact save for the loss of a small triangular piece and the restoration of a larger section glued back into place, one of very few pieces recovered from this lesser-known wreck of a homebound Dutch East Indiaman by Robert Sténuit and team in 1976, featured in a National Geographic magazine in 1978. From the Witte Leeuw (1613), pedigreed to the Sotheby-Parke-Bernet auction of March 15, 1977, with sticker that says "Recovered from the wreck of the Dutch East-Indiaman, sunk off the Island of St. Helena in 1613" (oddly omitting the ship's name), and to Sedwick Auction 5, with original lot-tag 1325 and photo-certificate, plus the original National Geographic magazine of October 1978.