18th C Chinese Porcelain Blue & White Tea Cup & Saucer Tek Sing Shipwreck 1822

Porcelain tea cup and saucer believed to have been part of the 1999 salvage of the Tek Sing junk ship that sank in the South China Sea in 1822.

Tea Cup 3.75" (w/handle), 3.25", by 1.5" high.
Saucer 4.25" diameter.

THE TEK SING SHIPWRECK CARGO
The Tek Sing ("True Star") was a large three-masted Chinese ocean-going junk which sank on February 6, 1822 in an area of the South China Sea, north of Java, known as the Belvidere Shoals. The vessel was about 50 meters in length, 10 meters wide and around 1000 tons.
On May 12, 1999, the wreck of the Tek Sing was discovered by British mariner, Michael Hatcher. His crew raised about 350,000 pieces of the ship's cargo.
The bulk of the ceramics were Chinese blue-and-white tableware, consisting of bowls, tea cups etc, made in the kilns of Dehua, China

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