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The diamonds were gone, but the 300 pieces of Chinese porcelain and 300 – 400 kg of shards were salvaged.
The porcelain cargo included Kraak ware, a few fine wares from Jingdezhen and numbers of Zhangzhou ware,
all painted in cobalt blue. The motifs vary, but almost all are in the decorative style of Kraak ware, with a
centre and a panelled rim and executed in the outline and wash technique.

Comparable Zhangzhou wares have been found on several VOC ships like the Mauritius, which sank in 1608,
and the Banda, which sank in 1615.

Ref. :Van der Pijl-Ketel 1982
Sao Gonzalo, 1630
The Sao Gonzalo was a Portuguese ship that sank in 1630, while undergoing repairs, near Port Elizabeth, in the
Plattenberg Bay on the south coast of South Africa, on a return journey to Portugal from Goa.

The shipwreck is known to lie somewhere on the bottom of Platenberg Bay, but has never been found.
However, Kraak porcelain and ware of the Zhangzhou type were discovered during excavations of a campsite
near the coast in 1980. The camp has been built by the survivors of the shipwreck.

Ref.: Canepa 2006

Hatcher Cargo, 1640’s; Vung Tao, 1680’s
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The Hatcher Cargo, a shipwreck dated into the 1640 , carried Zhangzhou ware only in small quantities. The
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Zhangzhou type found on the Vung Tau, dated into the 1680 , were even fewer, a confirmation of the decline
of the Zhangzhou kilns.

Ref.: Sheaf and Kilburn 1988; Joerg and Flecker 2001

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