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Fig. 3.4.2.2.10 Chart from the nautical
atlas entitled Spieghel der Zeevaerdt, first
published by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer
(1533/34–1606), 1584
University Library Utrecht
pots are published in Sheaf and Kilburn, 1988, p. motif was most probably taken from a printed source provided by VOC servants.
58, pl. 76 (top row), and p. 71, pl. 110 (bottom row); As noted elsewhere, the landscape arrangement in three horizontal planes may have
respectively. Also see Appendix A, p. 168. A baluster
ribbed example from the Hatcher junk is now in the derived from contemporary Chinese landscape paintings, as suggested by a handscroll
Groninger Museum, inv. no. 1984–250. Published in
Viallé, 1992, p. 31. entitled ‘River and Mountains on a Clear Autumn day’ by the late Ming artist Dong
983 VOC 316. Cited in Viallé, 1992, pp. 11 and 19. Qichang (1555–1636) in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1001 Bowls of the type discussed
984 Examples are published in Ostkamp, 2011, p. 29,
figs. 48–50. here, as well as large dishes decorated with stylized flowers in the so-called Transitional
985 Published in Christiaan Jörg et al., Umi o watatta
tojiki ten, Ceramic Crossed Overseas: Jingdezhen, style, were manufactured at both the Shibaqiao and Lianhualing kilns in Jingdezhen
Imari and Delft from the Collection of the Groninger (Appendix 2). 1002 Two shards excavated from Fort Zeelandia, founded in 1624 at
Museum, Sogo Museum of Art, Nagasaki Prefectural
Art Museum, Tokyo Daimaru Museum of Art, Nara Tayouan, provide material evidence of the VOC’s trade of such porcelain bowls and
Sogo Museum of Art, Kobe Daimaru Museum of
Art, Mainichi Newspapers, Japan, 1999–2000, cat. dishes via this distribution factory for both East Asia and Europe (Fig. 3.4.2.2.7). 1003
No. 12. A pair of candlesticks of this shape with the In this same letter of July 1634, Batavia complains that ‘The bell-cups with
Fig. 3.4.2.2.8 Zhangzhou blue-and-white Fig. 3.4.2.2.11 Zhangzhou saucer dish with candleholder missing and mounted in silver was
saucer dish Fig. 3.4.2.2.9 Dutch nautical map of Nova overglaze enamel decoration in the Julian Thompson study collection sold at ears will please, but the ears are proportionately too small, should be made somewhat
auction in Sotheby’s London, 14 May 2014, lot 185.
Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province Zembla, 1594 Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province 986 For a silver candlestick, one of a pair, of related larger and more in proportion. The new sort of pierings or tableplates should be finer
Ming dynasty, Wanli/Chongzhen reign Anonymous, published by Levinus Hulsius, Ming dynasty, Wanli/Chongzhen reign shape bearing a mark Amsterdam L (1642) in a
(1573–1644) Christoff Lochner, 1598 (1573–1644) private collection (17.5cm high), see Frederiks, 1958, and painted more nicely, they look too much like the earthenware that is made in
Diameter: 47cm Dimensions: 10.5cm x 14.5cm Diameter: 36.9cm p. 64, no. 208. Holland’. 1004 In all probability the ‘bell-cups with ears’ were like those recovered from
Groninger Museum, Groningen Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam British Museum, London 987 A few English pewter candlesticks of related high- the Wanli shipwreck (c.1625), and those on board the Nuestra Señora de la Limpia
(inv. no. 1983-0189) (museum no. NG-1979-564-2) (museum no. PDF A.771) bell shape dating to c.1600–1620 are known. An
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