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Fig. 3.4.1.1.22 Shard of a Kraak dish with a
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The armorial for the German market was made in the subsequent reign of Tianqi.
Fig. 3.4.1.1.20 Large Kraak dish with a
pseudo-armorial
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620)
Diameter: 43.5cm
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
(inv. no. E84086)
Fig. 3.4.1.1.21 Print by Girolamo Porro
Padovano (c.1550–1604) published by Camillo
Camilli (c.1560–1615) in Imprese Illvstri di
diversi, co’ discorsi, Venice, 1586
pseudo-armorial excavated at the site of the It is a large dish bearing at the centre the quartered arms of Wittelsbach surrounded
St. Augustine Church, Macao
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece within a panelled border, which is now
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) in the Residenz Museum in Munich (Fig. 3.4.1.1.19). It is likely, as mentioned earlier,
Macao Museum (inv. no. SA/95_587)
that it was made for Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria and Prince Elector of the Holy
Fig. 3.4.1.1.23 Roman Empire (r. 1597–1651) in c.1625. The exact circumstances of this order are
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Stone façade cathedral of St. Paul, built from unknown. One may, however, wonder if Maximilian’s desire to own porcelain with his
1582 to 1602, Macao
arms at the time he was reigning was related to the Urbino majolica 272-piece set of
tableware decorated with grotesques and the arms of Bavaria given to his father and
predecessor, William V (r. 1579–1597), by Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of
variations, are depicted on a background of four
quadrants on the plates. The quadrants of a plate Urbino (1549–1631), in 1587. It is unclear whether this armorial dish was ordered
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in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, show a
ruyi-head alternately reserved on honeycomb and via Macao or Manila, but in all probability the order was made through dynastic
Y-diaper grounds; and those in a plate in a private relations with the Habsburgs. One wonders if this was a single order, or if other such
collection in Brazil show chi-dragons alternating
with stylized flowers in white on blue. The quadrants armorial dishes were made.
somewhat resemble that seen on the Galego arms.
On the bowl, housed in Lotherthon Hall, Leeds, they Only two pseudo-armorials have been recorded so far in Kraak porcelain, both
are depicted on the interior and on two opposing dating to the Wanli reign. One is depicted as a shield enclosing an extraordinary hydra
sides of the exterior, alternating with an unusual
motif, which may depict a covered rectangular with five animal heads and the heads of a man and a woman, flanked by a scroll
container suspended from tied ribbons. A similar
motif is found on an early Wanli period bowl as well inscribed with the Latin motto Sapienti nihil novum (To the wise man nothing is new),
as a few dishes. The bowl shows this container motif on the centre of a large dish (Fig. 3.4.1.1.20) and a saucer dish, on the interior of a
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on the centre interior. Examples of dishes can be
found in the Santos Palace, the Casa-Museu Guerra small bowl, on the sides of two bowls of larger size and a small jar. On all these
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Junqueiro in Porto and a fragment of another was
recovered from the shipwreck of the shipwreck San pieces the pseudo-armorial appears in combination with Buddhist auspicious symbols,
Felipe (1576). This distinctive motif, but omitting but on the dishes it is also surrounded by a standard Kraak panelled border divided by
the coin, has also been recorded on a fragment
of a klapmuts salvaged from the VOC shipwreck single lines. No source for this pseudo-armorial has yet been identified. It is well-known
Witte Leeuw (1613). Lion-Goldschmidt, 1984, p. 43, that the seven-headed hydra within a shield appeared frequently on sixteenth century
fig. 79; Impey, 1992, pp. 22–3; Kuwamaya, 1997, p.
59, no. 26; Rinaldi, 1989, p. 110, pl. 105; and Van der
Pijl-Ketel, 1982, p. 118, inv. no. 7741. For the arms, prints, as seen for example in a print by Girolamo Porro Padovano (c.1550–1604)
see Afonso Eduardo Martins Zuquete (ed.), Armorial published by Camillo Camilli (c.1560–1615) in 1586 (Fig. 3.4.1.1.21). It might
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Lusitano. Geneologia e Heráldica, Lisbon, 1961,
p. 172. The plates are published in Sargent, 2000, p. 76, be related to the Portuguese, as suggested by the saucer dish formerly in the Santos
fig. 3; Canepa, 2008/2, pp. 50–51, fig. 24; and Pinto
de Matos, 2011, pp. 170–171, no. 67. Palace in Lisbon, a shard of a dish or plate with part of this pseudo-armorial found
853 The shape of these bottles will be discussed in at a site by the St. Augustine Church in Macao (Fig. 3.4.1.1.22) and the seven-
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section 3.4.1.2 of this Chapter.
854 Five individuals have been suggested as possible headed hydra depicted on the stone façade of the Cathedral of St. Paul, built from
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