Survivors of a shipwreck ivories from a Manila galleon of 1601
This article explores a find of ivories excavated in the first decade of the current century from a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Mariana Islands, almost 1500 miles from the Philippines, along the route the Manila galleons took on their way to Mexico. In 1601 one of those galle...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Hispanic research journal / Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College |
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2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This article explores a find of ivories excavated in the first decade of the current century from a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Mariana Islands, almost 1500 miles from the Philippines, along the route the Manila galleons took on their way to Mexico. In 1601 one of those galleons, the Santa Margarita, sank, along with its rich cargo of goods from the Philippines. The cargo included ivory sculptures, over 300 of which have now been excavated. They consist of fragments of sculptures, and occasionally virtually complete small-scale works, mostly representing Christian subjects, carved by Chinese and Filipino sculptors in the Philippines. This is the first time a specific group of such ivories known to have come from a dated shipwreck has been examined and published. The date of the shipwreck suggests that we should revise the dates of similar pieces, formerly thought to have been carved later on in the seventeenth century, to an earlier date. |
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| Beschreibung: | Zusammenfassung in spanischer Sprache |
| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISSN: | 1468-2737 |