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SUMMARY:Ming porcelain from the Portuguese shipwreck Espadarte (1558)
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Dr Mok H. Y. Charitable Foundation Lecture spopnsored by Dr Edwin Mok\nFor almost 450 years, the remains of the Portuguese nau Espadarte were buried in the shallow waters off Fort San Sebastian on Mozambique Island, which was the former Portuguese capital of East Africa. The Espadarte, previously known as the ‘Fort San Sebastián Wreck’, sank in May 1558 en route to Lisbon.\nIn 2001, underwater archaeologists began recovering the cargo from the wreck site, which included over 1,000 intact pieces of Chinese porcelain along with a large quantity of shards. The porcelain consists mainly of blue-and-white pieces made for export in Jingdezhen, located in Jiangxi province and the most important centre of porcelain production in China.\nOne key find, made some fifteen months into the archaeological excavation, was a blue-and-white saucer-dish bearing a four-character mark on the reverse which reads guichou nian zao (“made in the guichou year”), which corresponds to 1553. This allowed researchers to securely date the shipwreck to the Jiajing reign (1522-1566). These finds are of great historical importance for both Portugal and the Republic of Mozambique. Moreover, they represent one of the most important collections of dated late Ming porcelain found thus far in Africa and shed light on the mid-sixteenth century maritime trade between Europe, Africa and Asia, when the Iberian kingdom of Portugal ruled over one of the most complex and lucrative maritime trading empires that the world had ever known.\n
URL:https://orientalceramicsociety.org.uk/events/32025
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