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Chinese and European shipwrecks

with late Ming porcelain

[Appendix 3]

Portuguese

Ship name/ Port of departure/
Date of shipwreck Size/type of ship Site of shipwreck Porcelain cargo
designation destination
1552 São João 900-ton Carreira da Cochin/ Lisbon North of Umtamvuna Jingdezhen ordinary trade
Índia nau (present-day Port- blue-and-white porcelain,
Chinese Edward), Southern and one shard bearing
Natal, Eastern Cape a Jiajing reign mark
(1522–1566). Some coarser
Ship name/ Port of departure/ blue-and-white porcelain
Date of shipwreck Size/type of ship Site of shipwreck Porcelain cargo
designation destination made at private kilns of
Jingdezhen or southern
Early sixteenth century San Isidro Chinese junk Off the coast of Mostly Zhangzhou blue- China
Zambales, Luzon island, and-white porcelain
the Philippines 1554 São Bento 900-ton Carreira da Cochin/Lisbon Msikaba, Eastern Cape Jingdezhen ordinary trade
Índia nau blue-and-white porcelain,
c.1573–1620 Nan’ao No. 1 Chinese junk Off Yun’ao Town, Nan’ao Over 10,000 pieces and one shard bearing
County, Shantou City, of porcelain. Mostly a Jiajing reign mark
Guangdong province Zhangzhou blue-and- (1522–1566). Some coarser
white porcelain, and blue-and-white porcelain
a small amount of made at private kilns of
Jingdezhen blue-and- Jingdezhen or southern
white porcelain, all China
probably dating to the
Wanli reign 1558 Espadarte 900-ton Carreira da En route to Lisbon Island of Mozambique Jingdezhen ordinary trade
Índia nau blue-and-white porcelain,
Late sixteenth/ early Wreck 2 of the Royal Chinese junk Off the island of Palawan Mostly Zhangzhou blue- one shard bearing a Jiajing
seventeenth century Captain Shoal and-white porcelain reign mark (1522-1566).
Jingdezhen white-glazed
1600 Beijiao No. 3 Chinese junk Off Xisha or Paracel Mostly Zhangzhou blue- porcelain, and porcelain with
islands, South China Sea, and-white porcelain traces of overglaze enamels
between Vietnam, South
China and the Philippines 1593 Santo Alberto Carreira da Índia nau Cochin/Lisbon Sunrise-on-Sea, off the Kraak and other Jingdezhen
eastern coast of South ordinary trade blue-and-
Africa white porcelain
c.1608 Binh Thuan Chinese junk East of Phan Thiet, Binh Mostly Zhangzhou blue-
Thuan Province, southern and-white porcelain, and 1606 Nossa Senhora dos Carreira da Índia nau Cochin/Lisbon Fortress of São Julião Kraak and other Jingdezhen
Vietnam Zhangzhou porcelain Mártires da Barra in the mouth ordinary trade blue-and-
decorated with overglaze of the Tagus River, near white porcelain
enamels Lisbon

c.1643 Hatcher junk Chinese junk South China Sea 25,000 pieces of intact 1608 Santo Espiritu Carreira da Índia nau South Africa Jingdezhen ordinary trade
porcelain were recovered blue-and-white porcelain
from the site, including
1608 IDM-003, most Carreira da Índia nau Cabeceira reef, off the Kraak porcelain
2,600 pieces of Kraak probably the Island of Mozambique
porcelain. The wreck Nossa Senhora da
site also yielded a large Consolação
number of porcelains
decorated in the so-
called Transitional style, 1615 Nossa Senhora da Luz Carreira da Índia nau Goa/Lisbon Porto Pim, Faial, Kraak and other Jingdezhen
approximately 845 Azores, Portugal blue-and-white porcelain
Blanc de chine pieces,
396 celadon porcelains 1622 São João Baptista Large Carreira da Goa/Lisbon Kenton-on-sea, Eastern Kraak and other Jingdezhen
and a smaller amount of Cape, South Africa blue-and-white porcelain
Zhangzhou porcelain and Índia nau
monochrome wares

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