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situated in the highlands of Guatemala. The city was founded in 1543 and served as
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20,000: A 17th century estancia Near Santa Fe’,
Pottery Southwest, Vol. 28, No. 2, July 2009, p. 15. No the seat of the military governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala, which included
porcelain finds had been reported at the LA 20,000
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site by Trigg in 2005. See, Trigg, 2005, p. 107. almost all of present-day Central America and the Mexican state of Chiapas. Such
701 AGNP, Notaría 4, box 35, Protocolos 1589, fols. porcelain finds are not surprising as the Audiencia of Guatemala played an important
1339–1341r and 1341–1342r. Cited in Margaret E.
Connors MacQuade, Loza Poblana: The Emergence role in the trade between the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, and also traded
of a Mexican Ceramic Tradition, unpublished PhD
dissertation, The City University of New York, 2005, directly with the Philippines. Although a cédula real (royal decree) in 1593 specifically
p. 49. prohibited this trade, it continued clandestinely until 1597, when trade was authorized
702 John M. Goggin, Spanish Maiolica in the New World:
Types of the 16th to 18th Centuries, Yale University again. After 1610, Guatemala became involved in the trade of Chinese goods
Publications in Antropology, no. 72, New Haven,
1968, pp. 97–8; and Connors MacQuade, 2005, pp. transported overland from Acapulco to the Audiencia ports of Acajutla (present-day
49-50. Salvador), Fonseca and Realejo (present-day Nicaragua), on the Pacific coast, where
703 Trigg, 2005, p. 189.
704 n 1521, Oaxaca was granted by the Spanish Crown they were loaded onto ships bound for Peru. This lucrative trade continued until the
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to the conquistador Hernán Cortés as his prize for
conquering New Spain. That same year, the Spanish 1630s and then declined. The direct trade of porcelain from the Philippines or via New
founded a settlement named Segura de la Frontera, Spain and Peru is attested by finds of blue-and-white porcelain from both Jingdezhen
later known as Nueva Antequera, and in 1532 it was
officially raised to the category of a royal city by and Zhangzhou at the site of the former Dominican monastery of Santo Domingo,
decree of Charles V with the name of Antequera de
Guaxaca. which was founded in 1542 and housed a large church, a hospital, a pharmacy and
705 Published in Susana Gómez Serafín and Enrique the College of Saint Thomas Aquinas. The site yielded more than 350,000 local and
Fernández Dávila, Catálogo de los objetos
cerámicos de la orden dominicana del ex convent imported ceramic shards, among which are shards of a Jingdezhen blue-and-white bowl
de Santo Domingo de Oaxaca, Mexico, 2007, pp.
214–215 and pp. 220–221. I am grateful to Susana decorated with chrysanthemum among scrolling foliage, of a plate with the phoenix
Gómez Serafín, Centro INAH Morelos, Cuernavaca, in profile design, similar to those recovered from the shipwreck San Felipe (1576) and
Mexico, for providing me with sketch-drawings of
the porcelain recovered from the convent. For the excavated in Drake’s Bay, most probably associated with the San Agustín (1595), and
examples recovered from the San Diego and Witte
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Leeuw, see Carré, Desroches and Goddio, 1994, in Mexico City (Fig. 3.3.1.1.14), and of a Kraak dish with a panelled border. There
p. 344, cat. 117; and Van der Pijl-Ketel, 1982, p. 141, are also two shards of cups decorated with scattered flowers and insects in the so-called
no. 1.9.3; respectively.
706 This saucer dish, catalogued as porcelain from Transitional style, which relate closely to porcelain recovered from the Hatcher junk
Canton, is published in Ibid., p. 217, no. 452 (bottom
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image). (c.1643). The Santo Domingo site also yielded a shard of a Zhanghzou dish with
707 A sketch-drawing of this bowl is published in Susana flowering branches on the cavetto and a scale diaper border, which relates closely to
Gómez Serafín and Enrique Fernández Dávila,
Las cerámicas coloniales del ex convent de Santo dish fragments found at the Dalong kiln site in Pinghe (Appendix 2). Excavations in
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Domingo de Oaxaca. Pasado y presente de una
tradición, Mexico, 2007, p. 165, no. 238. the gardens of the former Franciscan monastery of San Francisco, built in the 1570s,
708 Shards that formed part of a total of 4.219 pieces yielded a shard decorated with deer that most probably formed part of a Kraak plate
dating to the late Ming and early Qing dynasty
have been excavated at the convent. For more with a continuous rim border, similar to those recovered from the San Diego (1600),
Fig. 3.3.1.1.23 Sketch-drawing of a Kraak plate information and images of the porcelain, see Susana
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excavated at the Dominican convent of Santo Gómez Serafín, ‘Porcelanas orientales en Santo a shard of a Kraak plate with panelled border, as well as a shard of the neck of a
Domingo de Guzmán, Oaxaca Domingo de Guzmán, Oaxaca’, Cuadernos del Sur, Kraak pear-shaped bottle decorated with pomegranate seeds in reserve, which most
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province nos. 6–7, Year 3, 1994, pp. 5–24.
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) 709 L. A. Romero, La cerámica de importación de Santo probably had a garlic-shaped neck such as the example in the Museo Franz Mayer in
Domingo, Antigua Guatemala, Paper presented at
© Susana Gómez Serafín the XX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas, Mexico City.
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Guatemala, 2006. I am grateful to George Kuwayama The wide circulation of porcelain within the viceroyalty in the late sixteenth and
Fig. 3.3.1.1.24 Sketch-drawing of Kraak plate for providing me with information and images of the
excavated at the Dominican convent of Santo porcelain excavated at Antigua Guatemala. early seventeenth centuries is further evidenced by porcelain finds from archaeological
Domingo de Guzmán, Oaxaca 710 George Kuwayama and Anthony Pasinski, ‘Chinese excavations at Spanish settlements in the Caribbean. These include sites in Hispaniola,
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Ceramics in the Audiencia of Guatemala, Oriental
Art, Vol. XLVIII, No. 4, 2002, p. 26.
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) 711 bid. the first permanent Spanish settlement in the New World, which became part of New
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© Susana Gómez Serafín 712 Published in Ibid., pp. 28–29, figs. 2 and 3, and p. Spain in 1535. Excavations at an old Spanish fortress built after 1512 in the town of
30, fig. 8 (top centre). The site of the convent of
Fig. 3.3.1.1.25 Sketch-drawing of a Kraak cup Santo Domingo also yielded porcelain dating to the Concepción de la Vega, located halfway between Santo Domingo and Puerto Plata
excavated at the Dominican convent of Santo Qing dynasty. For more information and images of (present-day Dominican Republic), yielded a few shards of a small blue-and-white
Domingo de Guzmán, Oaxaca the Qing porcelain recovered, see Tony Pasinski, bowl with an everted rim decorated with lotus and other water plants, bearing the
‘Informe Sobre la Ceramica de Importacion: Siglos
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province XVI al XVIII, Tomo I: Resumen del Estudio’, Proyecto
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) Arqueologico Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo, La mark da ming nian zao (made in the great Ming dynasty), which was most probably
© Susana Gómez Serafín Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, July 2004, pp. 8–10. made in the Jiajing reign at a private kiln of Jingdezhen (Appendix 2). As noted by
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713 Compare the decoration of the Hatcher junk (c.1643)
Fig. 3.3.1.1.26 Zhangzhou blue-and-white pieces illustrated in Sheaf and Kilburn, 1988, p. 56, Pomper, the fact that the town was destroyed in 1562 indicates that the bowl could
pl. 72.
saucer dish (reconstructed) excavated at the 714 Kuwayama and Pasinski, 2002, p. 29, fig. 5; and Fujian not have reached the settlement via the Manila Galleon trade. The following year, in
Dominican convent of Santo Domingo de Provincial Museum, 1997, pl. 71, no. 1, respectively.
Guzmán, Oaxaca 715 Kuwayama and Pasinski, 2002, p. 28, fig. 3; and 1563, Philip II complained to the Audiencia of Santo Domingo about cargoes from
Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province p. 30, fig. 7. Portugal and other countries being brought to Hispaniola to be exchanged for gold,
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Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) 716 bid., p. 29, fig. 6; and Kuwayama, 1997, p. 36, silver and other colonial products. Thus it is possible that the bowl was brought by
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