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Fig. 3.1.3.3 Kraak globular kendi from the
shipwreck San Diego (1600)
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620)
Height: 22cm
Museo Naval, Madrid (inv. no. 7309)
Fig. 3.1.3.4 Kraak wine or water pot from the
VOC shipwreck Witte Leeuw (1613)
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620)
Height: 19cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
(museum no. NG-1977-174-W)

opinion, see Sir Michael Butler and Professor Wang taken in 1524 of her Palace of Mechelen reveals that she had approximately 15 pieces
Qingzheng, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen
Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler of porcelain, some with silver or silver-gilt mounts, displayed throughout her personal
Collections. Beauty’s Enchantment, exhibition
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catalogue, The Shanghai Museum, London, 2006, living apartments. Visual sources attest to the appreciation of porcelain in the
p. 28. Southern Netherlands at the time of Margaret’s rule. For instance, a small porcelain
230 Like the tall cups discussed earlier, some of these
wine cups bear a six-character Chenghua reign ewer containing white lilies is depicted in painting of the Annunciation formerly
mark within a circle on the base. Eight tall bell-
shaped cups showing traces of overglaze enamel attributed to the Brussels painter-designer Bernard van Orley (c.1487/91–1541), who
decoration and bearing Chenghua reign marks was appointed as Margaret’s official court painter in 1518.
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were recovered from the Wanli shipwreck (c.1625).
Published in Sjostrand and Lok Lok bt. Syed Idrus, Like many other Habsburg rulers across Europe, the Archduke Albert of Austria
2007, pp. 154–155, serial. No. 4643.
231 Published in Bowden, 2004, p. 14. and his wife Isabella Clara, who ruled as joint governors of the Southern Netherlands
232 Published in Li Jian’an, ‘Dehua Jiabeishan mingdai between 1598 and 1621, had an impressive collection of Asian objects in their
yaozhi de fajue yu shouhuo (Excavation & results
of the Jiabeishan kiln site of the Ming dynasty at Kunstkammer in Brussels. Archduke Albert, as mentioned in Chapter II, also appears
Dehua)’, Fujian Wenbo, no. 49, 2004/4, p. 32; Fujian
bowuyuan, Dehuaxian wenguanhui & Dehua taoci to have appreciated and worn silks imported from China. The Five Senses cycle by
bowuguan, ‘Dehua mingdai Jiabeishan taozhi Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625) and Peter Paul Rubens (1557–1640), painted
fajue jianbao (Short report on the excavation to the
Ming dynasty kiln site at Jiabeishan, Dehua)’, Fujian for Albert and Isabella Clara in 1617–1618, show their curiosity cabinets and various
Wenbo, no. 55, 2006/2, p. 14; and Rose Kerr and
John Ayers, et. al., 2002, p. 39, fig. 3. places of the archducal court filled with diverse art objects reflecting their wealth and
233 The earliest archaeological evidence of the Spanish sophisticated taste. Three of the five paintings, Sense of Sight, Sense of Taste and
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trade in Blanc de chine porcelain was thought to
date to c.1650–1670. This was based on fragments Sense of Smell, include porcelain. In a detail of the Sense of Sight, for example, one
recovered from the wreck site of a large unidentified
ship, known as the Tankard Wreck, which is can clearly see the Archduke’s curiosity cabinet decorated with paintings, tapestries,
believed to have been under the command of a busts and a large number of pieces of porcelain displayed on a table, on a cabinet
Spanish crew at the time that it sank off Bermuda
in c.1650–1670, while en route to Spain. The next and on a sideboard (Figs. 3.1.3.1a and b). All pieces appear to be Kraak porcelain
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evidence is provided by Blanc de chine finds from a
Spanish shipwreck that sank in 1691 on Pedro Bank, dating to the Wanli reign, including a small bowl with silver-gilt mounts, two pear-
Fig. 3.1.3.2 Kraak pear-shaped bottle southwest of Jamaica, while en route to Havana; and shaped bottles (Fig. 3.1.3.2) and a globular kendi similar to those recovered from
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province those recovered at Nehalem Bay on the northwest the shipwreck San Diego (1600) (Fig. 3.1.3.3), a large vase, a wine or water pot (Fig.
coast of present-day United States, from a wreck
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) known as Beeswax Wreck, which is most likely the
Height: 18.5cm Manila Galleon, Santo Cristo de Burgos that sailed 3.1.3.4), a dish decorated with flaming wheels or chakras 266 forming a five-petalled
Groninger Museum, Groningen from Manila in 1693 and disappeared without a motif within a panelled rim border (Fig. 3.1.3.5) which relates closely to a late Wanli
(inv. no. 1988.0042) trace. The presence of Blanc de chine porcelain in
Spain is demonstrated by a small number of figure shard excavated at Macao, 267 and many small bowls and saucer dishes. These may be
and animal models in the Spanish royal collection,
Fig. 3.1.3.5 Kraak dish but it is not known exactly how or when these pieces some of the ‘three hundred pieces of porcelains, two boxes of glass and …porcelains’
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province entered the royal collection. See Canepa and
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) Terreros Espinosa, 2014, pp. 2–15. A total of 23 Blanc sent in 1602 to Isabella Clara in Brussels, which were part of the inheritance bequeathed
Diameter: 27.5cm de chine incense stick holders similarly moulded from her father’s estate. Philip II’s inventory, as mentioned earlier, lists three blue-
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Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden as Buddhist Lions were recovered from the cargo and-white garrafas with mammiform spouts protruding, which most probably referred
(inv. no. OKS 1983/47) of the Hatcher junk (c.1643). A pair is published in

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