On Monday January 3, 1752, the Dutch East India Company, ship Geldermalsen struck a reef on her return journey to the Netherlands and sank in the South China Sea. Of the crew 32 survived and 80 went down with the ship and her cargo of tea, raw silk, textiles, dried wares, groceries, lacquer and porcelain. 
Item is one of its kind from The Nanking Cargo sale, Christie's 1986