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Fig. 3.1.2.11 Kraak klapmuts from the
shipwreck Nuestra Señora de la Limpia y
Pura Concepción (1641)
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Chongzhen reign (1628–1644)
Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural
Subacuático, Santo Domingo
Fig. 3.1.2.12 Kraak ‘crow cup’ from the
shipwreck Nuestra Señora de la Limpia y
Pura Concepción (1641)
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Chongzhen reign (1628–1644)
Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Fig. 3.1.2.15 Transitional style blue-and-white Fig. 3.1.2.16 Transitional style blue-and-white
Subacuático, Santo Domingo tall, bell-shaped cup from the shipwreck two-handled tall, bell-shaped cup from the Fig. 3.1.2.18 Kraak tall, bell-shaped cup from
Nuestra Señora de la Limpia y Pura shipwreck Nuestra Señora de la Limpia y Pura the shipwreck Nuestra Señora de la Limpia y
Figs. 3.1.2.14a and b Kraak plate with central Concepción (1641) Concepción (1641) Pura Concepción (1641)
ring cut into the porcelain body from the Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
shipwreck Nuestra Señora de la Limpia y Ming dynasty, Chongzhen reign (1628–1644) Ming dynasty, Chongzhen reign (1628–1644) Ming dynasty, Chongzhen reign (1628–1644)
Pura Concepción (1641) Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Subacuático, Santo Domingo Subacuático, Santo Domingo Subacuático, Santo Domingo
Ming dynasty, Chongzhen reign (1628–1644)
Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural
Subacuático, Santo Domingo
Fig. 3.1.2.13 Large Kraak dish from the
shipwreck Nuestra Señora de la Limpia y São Gonçalo (1630) (Fig. 3.1.2.11), the so-called ‘crow cups’ (Fig. 3.1.2.12), small
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Pura Concepción (1641) Cédulas de Paso, no. 363, folio 149v., Madrid, 2 May bowls and plates, as well as a few large dishes and a saucer dish, all with panelled
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province 1594. Pérez de Tudela and Jordan Gschwend, 2001,
Appendix A, p. 81.
Ming dynasty, Chongzhen reign (1628–1644) 179 AGS Valladolid, Cámara de Castilla, Libro de borders (Fig. 3.1.2.13). There are several examples (intact and semi-intact) of an
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Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Cédulas de Paso, no. 364, folio 262v., Aranjuez, 6 unrecorded type of Kraak plate with a shallow central ring cut into the porcelain
Subacuático, Santo Domingo May 1600. Pérez de Tudela and Jordan Gschwend,
2001, Appendix A, p. 81. body and covered with a transparent glaze, most probably intended to hold a cup,
180 AGS Valladolid, Cámara de Castilla, Libro de Cédulas within an unusual border of eight panels enclosing stylized auspicious symbols, and
de Paso, no. 364, folio 296r. Madrid, 26 October
Next pages 160–161 1600. Pérez de Tudela and Jordan Gschwend, 2001,
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Fig. 3.1.2.17 Still Life with Chocolate Service Appendix A, p. 81. a wide, flat unglazed base (Figs. 3.1.2.14a and b). Despite the fact that the cups
Oil on canvas, 40cm x 75cm 181 Krahe, 2014, Vol. I, p. 119–120. and bowls recovered from the shipwreck do not fit perfectly into the shallow central
Juan de Zurbarán (1620–1649), 182 Account of Jusepe de Vargas, treasurer of His ring of the aforementioned plates, one wonders if these pieces would have been used
signed and dated 1640 Majesty, by order of Arnedo, AGP, Administración
Museum of Oriental and Western Art, Kiew General, Cuentas Particulares, Leg. 5227, 14 May together as early models of mancerinas, which were used for the consumption of
1591. Almudena Pérez de Tudela, ‘La educación
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artística y la configuración de la imagen del príncipe hot chocolate. A number of blue-and-white tall, bell-shaped cups decorated with
Felipe’, in José Martínez Millán and Maria Antonietta continuous river scenes were found in two variants, without or with handles (Figs.
Visceglia (eds.), La Monarquía de Felipe III: La Corte,
Vol. 3, Madrid, 2008, p. 126, note 236. Cited in Krahe, 3.1.2.15 and 3.1.2.16). These cups are decorated in the new painting style, the so-
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2014, Vol. I, p. 120, note 472.
183 Presents given by Philip III to Archduchess called Transitional, which was first made at the kilns of Jingdezhen in the Tianqi reign
fragments of a blue-and-white plate decorated with three phoenixes in flight circling a the Portuguese shipwreck Nossa Senhora da Luz Maria of Graz in Barcelona in June 1599. Vienna, and was well established in the Chongzhen reign (Appendix 2), at the time the Spanish
Österreichisches Staatsaechiv, Haus-, Hof- und
flaming pearl within a white rim (Figs. 3.1.2.10a and b) (Appendix 3). (1615), mentioned earlier and cited in Canepa, 2014/1, Staatsarchiv, Spanien, varia, konv. 9, folio 316r–316v. galleon shipwrecked. The fact that 17 porcelain cups, together with plates, two candle
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p. 263. It is interesting to note that in 1579, Queen Published in Pérez de Tudela and Jordan Gschwend,
The porcelain recovered from the 600-ton galleon Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Anna of Austria (Philip II’s fourth wife) received some 2001, Appendix B, p. 116. The vases are listed in Fol. holders, a number of forks, spoons and chalice bases, all made in silver, were found
y Pura Concepción, which sank during a storm on the north coast of present-day ‘brincos’ sent as a present by the Marchioness of 316r as ‘100 vasos de porcelana’. Cited in Canepa, on the remains of a wooden chest with a hidden lower section containing 1.440 silver
2014, p. 28; and mentioned in Krahe, 2014/1, Vol. I,
Villarreal from Portugal. The Marchioness sent more
Dominican Republic in 1641 while en route from Veracruz to Seville, provides new ‘brincos’ to the Queen Anna the following year, p. 120. coins, suggests that this chest belonged to an affluent passenger who was bringing his
after receiving a jewel given by the Queen to her 184 Maria Anna is believed to have expanded the
and exciting material evidence of the Spanish trade in porcelain because it includes daughter Beatriz. AGS, E 398, fol. 178. Cited in Pérez kunstkammer at Graz Castle in Austria. Her wealth to Spain. 221 Visual sources attest to the presence of such tall bell-shaped cups
a few types of Jingdezhen porcelain that have not been recorded in earlier Spanish de Tudela, 2005, pp. 204–205, notes 47 and 51. This correspondence indicates that she acquired without handles and continuous river scenes in Spain as early as 1640. A still life
curiosities via the imperial ambassadors in
latter document does not specify the material of the
shipwrecks of either the trans-Pacific or trans-Atlantic trade routes, and therefore ‘brincos’. Therefore, it is not possible to ascertain if Madrid. Alphons Lhotsky, Festschrift des KHM II: painting by the Spanish artist Juan de Zurbarán (1620–1649), signed and dated 1640
they were made of porcelain. Mentioned in Canepa, Die Geschichte der Sammlungen, Vienna, 1941–
deserves a more detailed discussion (Appendix 3). When discussing the porcelain 2014/1, p. 252, note 76. 1945, p. 330, note 155; and Trnek and Haag, 2001, (Fig. 3.1.2.17), depicts one such a cup alongside another tall bell-shaped cup but with
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finds, it is important to bear in mind that the galleon was partially salvaged at the 175 AGS, Valladolid, Cámara de Castilla, Libro de p. 61. Mentioned in Canepa, 2014/1, p. 28 and p. 253, Kraak panelled decoration turned upside-down, similar to a few semi-intact examples
note 87.
Cédulas de Paso, no. 362, folio 345v. Madrid, 16 April
time of the wreckage, then again in 1687, and that its location thereafter remained 1590. Pérez de Tudela and Jordan Gschwend, 2001, 185 Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid, Consejos, Libro recovered from the wreck site (Fig. 3.1.2.18). Bell-shaped cups without handles and
Appendix A, p. 70. Cited in Canepa, 2014/1, p. 27. 2304, fols. 58v–59r. Letter from Philip III to the Duke
unknown until 1978 when the wreck site was found again. The site yielded many 176 AGS Valladolid, Cámara de Castilla, Libro de of Monteleón, Valladolid, 12 April 1605. Pérez de river scenes appear to have continued to be imported into Spain in the following
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pieces of various types of Kraak porcelain, their quality ranging from good to rather Cédulas de Paso, no. 362, folio 471r, San Lorenzo, Tudela and Jordan Gschwend, 2001, Appendix A, decade, as suggested by an example depicted in a still life by another Spanish artist,
18 Septiembre 1591. Pérez de Tudela and Jordan
p. 99.
poor. These include a considerable number of shallow bowls or klapmutsen decorated Gschwend, 2001, Appendix A, p. 74. 186 AGS, Valladolid, Cámara de Castilla, Libro de Antonio de Pereda (1611–1678), which is signed and dated 1652 (Fig. 3.1.2.19).
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177 Krahe, 2014, Vol. I, p. 116. Cédulas de Paso, no. 361, folios 296v–297r. Lisbon,
with monster masks, similar to those found at the survivor’s campsite of the shipwreck 178 AGS Valladolid, Cámara de Castilla, Libro de 23 July 1582. Pérez de Tudela and Jordan Gschwend, The fact that the compositions of both Zurbarán and Pereda include such tall bell-
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