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Cup (Wine cup)
1600-1620
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
1978.0028
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase with funds provided by Mrs. Alfred P. Harrison
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Object Number
1978.0028
Object Name
Cup (Wine cup)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1600-1620
Subject(s)
- Archaeological evidence for similar (America)
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
1.457 (H) x 1.929 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
3.7 (H) x 4.9 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Welsh, Jorge. 2008 Kraak Porcelain: The Rise of Global Trade in the late 16th and early 17th Centuries.
• Discussion on White Lion (Witte Leeuw) shipwreck: pp. 80-81, Dutch ship, sunk off harbor of St. Helena in 1613.Book: Lange, Amanda E. 2005 Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield.
• Two very similar "wine cups" with discussion of shipwreck archaeology and American archaeology (VA): pp. 133-34, no. 33Book: Outlaw, Alan Charles. 1990 Governor's Land: Archaeology of Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia Settlements.
• Two similar cups in 1617 oil painting by Christoffel van den Berghe, "Bouquet of Flowers in Glass": p. 31, fig. 18, painting in collection of Philadelphia Museum of ArtBook: Outlaw, Alan Charles. 1990 Governor's Land: Archaeology of Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia Settlements.
• Similar cups excavated at The Maine site, Governor's Land, VA (early 17th century): pp. 121, 123-24, fig. A3.6, nos. 60, 62, 63. No. 60 noting two additional examples plus nine from the wreck of the Witte Leeuw (see above ref.).Web Site: Virtual Jamestown. www.virtualjamestown.org
• Image of excavated wine cupArticle: Straube, Beverly. 2001 European Ceramics in the New World: The Jamestown Example. Ceramics in America. 47-71.
• Excavated fragment of similar cup: pp.51-52, fig. 7, discussing Chinese export of such wares to Europe and America and noting over a dozen excavated in Virginia.