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Figs. 3.3.1.2.1a and b Shards of a Zhangzhou
dish and bowl with overglaze enamel decorated with red and yellow overglaze enamels with lotus flowers and pearl strings
decoration excavated in front of the Palacio with tassels, which relates to fragments of bowls recovered from the shipwreck San
de Justicia, Lima Felipe (1576). These latter Lima finds are now all housed at the Intituto Riva-Agüero. 738
Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province
Ming dynasty, Wanli/Tianqi reign (1573–1627) Excavations at a site located two blocks to the east of the main square of colonial Lima,
© Juan Mogrovejo
known as the house of Osambela, which formed part of a Dominican monastery from
Fig. 3.3.1.2.2 Fragment of a Kraak dish the mid-sixteenth century to 1807, yielded shards of plates and small cups, which were
excavated at an old colonial house, now the most probably of Kraak porcelain. One of the Spanish literary figures of the time,
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Museo de Sitio Bodega y Quadra, Lima
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Lope de Vega (1562–1635), in his comedy Servir a señor discreto implies the interest
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) in porcelain in Lima when he presents the character of Don Silvestre as a Spanish
Museo de Sitio Bodega y Quadra, Lima
returning to Madrid from the New World, who is bringing for his wife ‘a thousand
Fig. 3.3.1.2.3 Fragments of a blue-and-white things of China, that to be sold/ come to Lima’, and among them ‘some pieces of
plate excavated at an old colonial house, now porcelain, make / silver jealous, if they are plates’.
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the Museo de Sitio Bodega y Quadra, Lima
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province In northern Peru, a few shards of Kraak porcelain were found during recent
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) excavations at the site of the colonial town and church complex Magdalena de Cao
Museo de Sitio Bodega y Quadra, Lima 738 Kuwayama, 2009, pp. 170–171, figs. 11, 10 and 8,
respectively. The Zhangzhou shard is also published Viejo in the Chicama Valley, which was occupied from 1578 to about 1780. They
Opposite page in Canepa, 2010, p. 62, fig. 12. For the San Felipe appear to have formed part of a plate or dish with a panelled border (Fig. 3.3.1.2.6) and
Fig. 3.3.1.2.4 Fragment of a Zhangzhou blue- fragments, see Kuwayama, 2009, p. 170, fig. 9; and of a small bowl or cup of the type known as ‘crow cup’ (Fig. 3.3.1.2.7). The church
Von der Porten, 2011, p. 39, Type VI.
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and-white plate excavated at an old colonial 739 The finds are discussed but not illustrated in Isabel
house, now the Museo de Sitio Bodega y Flores Espinoza, Ruben Garcia Soto, and Lorenzo complex of this tiny coastal re-settlement was established and run by the Dominican
Quadra, Lima Huertas V., Investigación Arqueológica-Histórica Mendicant Order. A number of porcelain shards were found in a rubbish heap
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Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province de la Casa Osambela (o de Oquendo)-Lima, Lima,
Ming dynasty, Wanli/Tianqi reign (1573–1627) 1981, p. 43. The authors described the decoration of within part of a former temple compound in Chucuito, a town located northwest of
Museo de Sitio Bodega y Quadra, Lima the pieces as with ‘birds, flowers and conventional Lake Titicaca in the south Peruvian highland. The finds at this town, also associated
designs’ arranged ‘in horizontal bands’. Mentioned
in Ross W. Jamieson, Domestic Architecture and with the Dominican Order who began to build churches and monasteries there in
Power. The Historical Archaeology of Colonial
Ecuador, New York, 2000, pp. 194–195. 1539, provide further material evidence of both the interest of the clergy in acquiring
740 Cited in Javier Portús Pérez, ‘“Que están vertiendo
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claveles”. Notas sobre el aprecio por la ceramica en porcelain and its wide distribution within Peru.
A number of shards of late Ming blue-and-white porcelain were recently found el Siglo de Oro’, Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, serie VII, Porcelain from both Jingdezhen and Zhangzhou circulated to the northern
6, 1993, p. 272. Also see, Coll Conesa, 2007, p. 128.
during excavations of one of the walls of an old colonial house, now the Museo de Sitio 741 I am grateful to Jeffrey Quilter, William and Muriel regions of the viceroyalty. A small number of shards have been excavated in the
Seabury Howells Director, Peabody Museum of
Bodega y Cuadra, located in the city’s main square. These include several fragments Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, old city of Panama, now known as Panama La Vieja, founded by the Spaniards in
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of Kraak porcelain, which formed part of plates with continuous naturalistic borders for providing me with images of the porcelain 1519 on the Pacific coast of present-day Panama. This colonial port city played an
excavated.
similar to examples recovered from the San Diego (1600), dishes with panelled borders 742 For more information on this archaeological important role in the Spanish trade route used to export Peruvian silver to Spain, but
site, see Jeffrey Quilter, ‘Cultural Encounters at
(Fig. 3.3.1.2.2), cups of the type known as ‘crow cups’, and bowls with spotted or Magdalena de Cao in Early Colonial Period’, in was abandoned when the English privateer Henry Morgan destroyed it in 1671. 744
white deer surrounded by foliage and wheel motifs, similar to that excavated at the Matthew Liebmann and Melissa S. Murphy (eds.), The Jingdezhen finds at this archaeological site, declared a World Heritage Site in
Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of
former Dominican convent in Oaxaca (Figs. 3.3.1.1.23 and 3.3.1.1.24). A fragment Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas, 2003, include shards of finely potted Kraak saucer dishes, plates and bowls, dating
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Santa Fe, 2011, pp. 103–126. Mentioned in Krahe,
of a Jingdezhen blue-and-white plate is decorated with dragons at the centre and 2014, Vol. I, p. 55. to the Wanli reign. These include shards decorated with lotus-petals outlined in blue
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rim (Fig. 3.3.1.2.3). There are also fragments of a blue-and-white bowl decorated 743 The author does not give any information regarding identical to those recovered from the Portuguese shipwreck Santo Alberto (1593). 747
the type or decoration of the porcelain. Harry
with stylized chrysanthemums, of a bowl with crane medallions interspersed by ruyi Tschopik, ‘An Andrean Ceramic Tradition in The ruins of the convent of nuns of the Concepción yielded shards of dishes with
Historical Perspective’, American Antiquity, vol. 15,
clouds, and of a bowl with a central roudel enclosing Shou Lao. There is also a blue- 1950, pp. 204 and 509. Mentioned in Kuwayama, continuous or panelled borders, as well as of bowls decorated with deer surrounded
2009, pp. 165–174.
and-white fragment, possibly of a bowl, which is decorated with Chinese characters. 744 Shulsky, 1998–1999, p. 84. by foliage and wheel motifs similar to those recovered from the San Diego (1600) and
In addition, the site yielded a fragment of a Zhangzhou blue-and-white plate with 745 For further information on this site, see Juan G. the VOC shipwreck Witte Leeuw (1613) and those excavated in Lima, and of bowls
736 The excavations that began in 2003, and undertaken Martín and Beatriz Rovira, ‘The Panamá Viejo
phoenix within a border of bracket-lobed panels reserved on a scale pattern ground again in 2010, yielded shards of ceramics from Peru, Archaeoligical Porject: More than a Decade of with a rim border of flying horses. The latter two finds also relate to the Wanli
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(Fig. 3.3.1.2.4), similar to a shard excavated at Moneda Street in Mexico City, which Panama and China. I am greatful to Claudia Prado, Research and Management of Heritage Resources’, bowls from Burghley House discussed earlier (Figs. 3.2.2.9 and 3.2.2.5). A rim
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archaeologist of Chile, for bringing these finds to my
Historical Archaeology, Vol. 46, 3, 2012, pp. 16–26.
relate to finds made at the Wanyaoshan, Dalong and Erlong kiln sites in Wuzhai, Pinghe attention. I am indebted to Miguel Fhon, Director 746 Published in Shulsky, 1998–1999, pp. 90–1, fig. 7. shard shows a similar panelled border to pieces recovered from both the San Diego and
of the Museo de Sitio Bodega y Quadra, Lima, 747 Mentioned in Canepa, 2012/1, p. 269.
county (Appendix 2). 737 for providing me with information and images of 748 The shards are published in Pomper, 2008, p. 9, the Portuguese shipwreck Nossa Senhora dos Mártires (1606) (Fig. 3.1.1.15). Shards
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There have been also a few accidental finds of porcelain shards in Lima. These the porcelain recovered at the site. The porcelain fig. 2; and Linda Rosenfeld Pomper, ‘Early Chinese have also been excavated from the site of a house built sometime after 1600, which
is discussed and some of it illustrated in Miguel
Porcelain Found in Panama’, in Robert Hunter (ed.),
include a shard of a finely painted Kraak dish with a panelled border excavated at Fhon Bazán, ‘El comercio con china a través del Ceramics in America, Hanover and London, 2012, p. had an infirmary for slaves adjacent to it during the period from 1662 to 1671. The
desentierro de menaje colonial (Casa Bodega y 34, fig. 8, p. 36, figs. 10-12, and p. 37, fig. 16. For the
Bolivia Street, a shard of a Zhangzhou blue-and-white dish decorated with broad Cuadra, siglos XVI-XVIII)’, in Richard Chuhue, Li Jing Witte Leeuw finds, see Van der Pijl-Ketel, 1982, pp. finds that most probably date from an earlier occupation of the house include a shard
129, 153 and 187.
brushstrokes excavated from a context dating to the last quarter of the seventeenth Na and Antonio Coello (eds.), La Inmigración China 749 Published in Pomper, 2008, p. 9, fig. 2. of a bowl with traces of overglaze enamel and gilded decoration on the exterior and a
al Perú. Arqueología, Historia y Sociedad, Lima,
century at Camana Street (Fig. 3.3.1.2.5), which relates to finds made at the Erlong 2012, pp. 23-38. 750 Pomper, 2012, p. 37, fig. 16. crosshatch diaper border on the inner rim in underglaze blue, thus of Kinrande type,
737 Published in Fujian Provincial Museum, 1997, pl. 71, 751 Both published in Ibid., p. 32, figs. 3 and 4,
kiln (Appendix 2), and a shard that most probably formed part of the rim of a bowl fig. 1, pl. 74, fig. 1 and pl. 85, fig. 1. respectively. similar to bowls recovered from the San Felipe (1576) and to an intact example in the
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