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various secular and religious sites. These include a shard of a finely potted Kraak in Western Cape, South Africa, in 1686. The fashion (Fig. 3.1.1.18), were found at the Royal Monastery of San Clemente. Three blue-and-
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for decorating Blanc de chine porcelain did not
dish decorated with ducks in a pond within a star-shaped medallion dating to the spread across Europe until the early eighteenth white shards dating to the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century were found at the
century, when this type of Dehua white-glazed
Wanli reign, c.1600, found at the Plaza (Square) de Oriente, where the remains of the porcelain was decorated in various painting Convent of El Carmen, which was inhabited by the Order of the Carmelites, and one
Alcázar of the Spanish Habsburgs were excavated (Fig. 3.1.2.23). The site of the techniques in Dutch, German, French and English other shard at the Monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas on the Cartuja Island.
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workshops. For a discussion on the trade of Blanc de
Plaza de Oriente and the Calle Bailén, which is the street that runs between the present chine porcelain to Europe, see Teresa Canepa, ‘The A small number of pieces of Kraak and other blue-and-white porcelain dating to
Trade in Blanc de Chine Porcelain to Europe and the
Palacio Real (Royal Palace) and the Plaza, yielded a few shards that formed part of a New World in the Late 17th and early 18th Centuries the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, as recently noted by Krahe, circulated
high quality white-glazed bowl with a high footring, dating to the late sixteenth or (Part I)’, Fujian Wenbo, 4th issue, December 2012, to other cities of southern and northern Spain. Archaeological finds have been
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beginning of the seventeenth century. Shards of both high quality blue-and-white 198 Gasch-Tomás, 2014, p. 199. made in the cities of Bayona and Vigo in the province of Galicia, in Murcia, in
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and Kraak porcelain were also found at the Plaza de Armería, near the Alcázar and the 200 Krahe, 2014, Vol. I, pp. 64–65. Malaga, and in Barcelona. A fragment of a dish with an everted foliate rim, dating
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buildings linked to the Palace, during renovation works at the Museum of the Spanish 201 Archivo Histórico de Protocolos de Madrid (hereafter to the Jiajing reign, excavated at the Pedralbes Monastery in Barcelona is of particular
cited as AHPM), Protocolo no. 742, Fol. 141. 1573–
Royal Collections. These include eight shards that most probably formed part of 1574. Inventory of the goods of the late Prince of interest. Its decoration, consisting of cranes flying amongst cloud scrolls within a
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Éboli, Don Ruy Gómez de Silva (8 August – 9 Ocober
a large jar finely painted with a pair of dragons chasing a flaming pearl above a lotus 1573). Valuation (14 September 1573– 1 May 1574). medallion, encircled by pending foliate scrolls and a stylized lingzhi border below
pond, framed above and below by a wide border with a variation of lotus petals. A jar For an English translation and a transcription of the the rim, relates closely to that seen on a few examples recovered from the Portuguese
inventory, see Krahe, 2014, Vol. I, p. 136; and Vol. II,
in a private collection in Brazil and one other in the Huaihaitang Collection decorated Appendix 3, Decument 2, pp. 131–147. shipwreck Espadarte (1558), which instead of cranes depicts two Buddhist Lions
202 AHPNZ, Jerónimo Andrés, 1585, folios 410 r–433 r,
with a very similar border and band of classic scolls below the straight rim, the first (Zaragoza, 24–IV–1585). Cited in Álvaro Zamora, chasing a ribboned cash symbol (Fig. 3.1.1.6).
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2006, p. 742; and Coll Conesa, 2007, p. 128.
with two five-clawed, scaly dragons among lotus and water plants and the latter with a 203 AHN, Sección Nobleza. Fondo Osuna, Caja 235. Further material evidence of the importation of porcelain into Spain is provided
pair of phoenixes flying amongst floral scrolls, each bearing a six-character Jiajing reign Documento 18–80. 1619. Inventory of goods of by three extant pieces, all preserved at ecclesiastic institutions. These include a blue-
the [VI] Duke of Bejar, Don Alonso Diego Lopez
mark within a rectangular frame, suggest that the jar from the Plaza de Armería may de Zuñiga Sotomayor. Executed in Gibraleón and-white bowl of small size with overglaze gilded decoration and silver-gilt mounts
have been inscribed with a Jiajing reign mark, and thus would had been made for the (Huelva) on 17 December 1619. For a transcription made in Augsburg by Philipp Benner (c.1580–1634) between 1608 and 1610, in the
of the document in Spanish, see Krahe, Vol. I,
court of emperor Jiajing. 238 A shard of a bowl with a high foot was excavated at Plaza p. 157; and Krahe, Vol. II, Appendix 3, Document 37, Church of Santa María de los Corporales in Daroca, Zaragoza. The decoration of
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de los Carros and another of a Kraak cup decorated with a duck swimming among 204 AHN, Sección Nobleza. Fondo Osuna, Caja 1040. this bowl, consisting on each side of a bird perched on a blossoming prunus branch
water plants at Calle Mayor c/v Cuesta de la Vega (Fig. 3.1.2.24). 239 A fragment of a 1646. Inventory of the goods of Cardinal Gaspar pending from the rim, relates to that seen on a fragment of a blue-and-white bowl
Borja Velasco, Cardinal of Toledo, Archbishop of
plate of rather poor quality, decorated with a phoenix in profile like those discussed Seville. Copy of the original inventory in the Gandia recovered from the Spanish shipwreck San Felipe (1576), and on a few shards of
Archive, dated 1646. For a transcription of the
earlier from the shipwrecks San Felipe (1576) and San Pedro (1595), and from Lagos document in Spanish, see Krahe, 2014, Vol. I, p. 145; another bowl excavated at the Spanish town of Santa Elena on Parris Island, present-
and Vol. II, Appendix 3, Document 49, pp. 202–203.
in southern Portugal, was excavated at a house located in the Plaza (Square) de la 205 For a discussion on the artistic objects owned day South Carolina, occupied from 1566 to 1576, which will be discussed in section
Marina Española, near the Palacio del Senado (Senate Palace), the former convent of by Juan Vicentelo and further bibliographical 3.3.1.1 of this Chapter (Fig. 3.3.1.1.21). Therefore the bowl in Daroca can be dated
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references, see Krahe, 2014, Vol. I, p. 144.
Augustinians founded in 1590 by María de Aragón, lady of Anne of Austria (1549– 206 nvetario del camarín y el oratorio de la casa de by stylistic comparison to the late Longqing or early Wanli reign. Although most of the
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1580), Philip II’s fourth wife and daughter of his first cousin the Emperor Maximilian Fig. 3.1.2.24 Shard of a blue-and-white bowl D. Juan Vicentelo en la collación de Santa María, gilded decoration of the bowl has been worn away, it is possible to see that it consisted
Archivo de la Audiencia Provincial de Sevilla,
II (r. 1564–1576) (Fig. 3.1.2.25). The finds from religious sites include a shard excavated at Calle Mayor c/v Cuesta de la Sección Histórica, leg. 142, fols. 855r–886v (7 de of finely executed leafy branches of flowers. It is unclear whether this gilded decoration
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Vega, Madrid junio de 1599). I am grateful to Laura Pérez Vega,
that formed part of a finely potted bowl or stem cup decorated in ‘pencil style’ with Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla, for providing was applied before the bowl left China or by local craftsmen once it arrived to Manila
fish among aquatic plants dating to the Wanli reign found during the excavation of a Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) me with a digital copy of the original document. For (probably Chinese), New Spain or to Europe. A few other extant late Ming blue-
a brief discussion on Juan Antonio Corzo and the
c.1600–1620
cesspit in the garden of the Convent of the Trinitarias, located between Huertas and Museo de Los Orígenes, Madrid belongings of Juan Vicentelo, see Urquízar Herrera, and-white pieces with gilded decoration have been recorded thus far. These include a
2007, pp. 168–169.
Lope de Vega streets (Fig. 3.1.2.26). The site of the Convent of the Trinitarias, 207 AGP, Patronatos, San Lorenzo, Caja 82, no. 5 bowl from the Kunstkammer of Ferdinand II in Vienna, now in the Kunsthistorisches
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Fig. 3.1.2.25 Fragment of a blue-and-white (entrega tercera [third delivery]), Fols. 40–42. For an
founded by Philip III in 1612, also yielded two fragments of a Kraak plate decorated plate excavated at Plaza (Square) de la English translation and a transcription of the pieces Museum; a Kraak cup in the Hallwyl Museum in Stockholm, 253 and a large blue-
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with deer in a landscape within a rim panelled border divided by single lines (Fig. Marina Española, Madrid of porcelain listed in the inventory, see Krahe, 2014, and-white saucer dish bearing a six-character Jiajing reign mark with gilded copper
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Vol. I, pp. 145–147, and note 618.
3.1.2.27). One other Kraak fragment was excavated at the Convent of the Nuns of Ming dynasty, Wanli/ Tianqi reign (1573–1627) 208 Luis Cervera, Inventario de los bienes de Juan mounts dating to the seventeenth century in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem,
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Constantinople, located on Juan de Herrera Street. 243 Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad Herrera, Valencia, 1977, p. 147. For an English Massachusetts. Porcelain with gilded decoration, as recently demonstrated by Krahe,
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translation and a transcription of the porcelain, see
de Madrid, Alcalá de Henares
The importation of porcelain into Spain via Seville is attested by a number of Krahe, Vol. I, pp. 147–148, and note 619. appears frequently listed in royal inventories of the sixteenth and early seventeenth
209 According to Tucker, Fernandino Da Vera’s family
porcelain shards excavated from both secular and religious sites at this trading port Fig. 3.1.2.26 Fragment of a blue-and-white was well known as titled Portuguese landowners and centuries. According to Álvaro Zamora the silver-gilt mounted bowl was given to the
bowl or stem cup excavated at the Convent merchants. A seal bearing his family crest recovered
city. These include four shards dating to the Ming dynasty found at the site of the of the Trinitarias, Madrid from the wreck site confirms his ownership of Church as a gift for use during liturgy by Martín Terrer de Valenzuela, who later came
Almaza-Mañara palace-house. Several shards, including two Kraak shards that formed Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province the caravel. For a discussion on the San Antonio to be archbishop of Zaragoza (1630–1631), or by another member of his family.
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Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) shipwreck finds, see Tucker, 2011, pp. 147–164.
part of the neck of a pear-shaped bottle similar that seen on an example recovered from Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad 210 Published in William B. Gillies, Reefs, Wrecks and There is also a blue-and-white drum-shaped stool or garden seat decorated with
the San Diego shipwreck (1600), and of the centre of a plate, were found at the site de Madrid, Alcalá de Henares Relics. Bermuda’s Underwater Heritage, Bermuda, Buddhist Lions playing with a brocade ball between trellis diaper and wave scroll
2007, p. 109 and colour images; and Tucker, 2011,
of San Juan de Acre, Convent of the Order of Malta. Other Kraak shards were found Fig. 3.1.2.27 Fragment of a Kraak plate p. 150. I am grateful to Wendy S. Tucker, Director borders and two moulded monster masks on the sides, dating to the Zhengde reign, in
at an old dump behind the old city wall during the construction of the underground excavated at the Convent of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI), the Capuchinas Convent in Toledo. Drum-shaped porcelain stools were a popular
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for granting me permision to include an image of
Trinitarias, Madrid the jar in this doctoral dissertation.
railway at San Fernando Street, and at the Convent of San Agustín. Shards of at least Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province 211 The Santa Margarita was part of a fleet of 28 ships that piece of furniture made for the domestic market during the Zhengde, Jiajing and Wanli
one Kraak plate and others of a plate with blue-and-white and Kinrande decoration, Ming dynasty, Wanli/ Tianqi reign (1573–1627) comprised the Tierra Firme Fleet that sailed towards reigns. An identical example is found in The Art Museum of the Chinese University
Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad the Florida Straits. The loss of 1.28 million pesos
similar to that excavated at the former convent of Santana in Lisbon discussed earlier de Madrid, Alcalá de Henares carried on the Santa Margarita and Nuestra Señora of Hong Kong, and another dating to the Jiajing reign is in the Huaihaitang
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