This bowl with handle and spout has a blue-and-white landscape and floral designed exterior.It was part of the 'Nanking Cargo', retrieved from the Geldermalse, a Dutch East India Company ship, wrecked in the South China Sea on its homeward journey with tea, blue and white porcelain and gold ingots.One hundred thousand tea and coffee cups with saucers were shipped annually to Holland at this time. Handles on cups became fashionable after 1760. Milk jugs such as this were first exported to Holland in 1745 and remained popular until around 1752.
