Period antiques from the southernmost province of Ca Mau entered the first auction in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on January 29, said the provincial People’s Committee.

The three-day auction will sell over 76,000 objects retrieved from a sunken ship. The antiques were mostly Chinese products made under the Qing dynasty during the 1723-1735 period.

Porcelain dishes, pots and statues which are unique in design, were made at the then famous kilns in Jiangxi and Guangdong of China.

The auctioned items were part of over 99,100 antiques lifted from the wreckage by the province in association with the Vietnam History Museum.

An additional 32,500 relics from the wrecked ship were illegally taken by locals from nearby Binh Thuan province, costing the provincial administration over VND 13 billion (US $921,400) to collect them from the population.

Posted: 01|31|07 at 10:49 am. Filed under: Auction News.