In this publication, Franck Goddio presents the results of fifteen years patient research, restoration and preservation work on the thousands of items found on the wreck of the Honourable East India Company ship, the Griffin. The ship was part of a convoy sailing along a little-known sea route sometimes used as a shortcut. It was charged with a clandestine mission crucial to the expansion policy which the East India Company was aggressively, if discreetly, pursuing at that time. The minute restoration, documentation and comparison of the remains of this shipwreck cast new light on European trading patterns, but above all on our knowledge of the great Chinese art of porcelain manufacture and decoration and its master artists. The excavation proved a massive undertaking, requiring a sizeable team, 420 days of work onsite and a total of 15 years to complete. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps and archival material, and contains a complete inventory of the porcelain found on the wreck site.

Griffin - On the Route of an Indiaman

Goddio, Franck

Jay, Evelyne

de Saint Michel, Guyot

History

Periplus Publishing London

Lost at Sea: The Strange Route of the Lena Shoal Junk

Book by Goddio, Franck, Crick, Monique, Lam, Peter, Pierson, Stavey, Scott, Rosemary

CRICK, MONIQUE

Scott, Rosemary

Lam, Peter

Pierson, Stavey

'The wreck of a Chinese junk discovered in 1997 on the Lena Shoal, northeast of Palawan in the Philippines, yielded a remarkable trove of Ming Dynasty ceramics'. This book accompanies an exhibition held at the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 2001, featuring ceramic artefacts from the late 15th century wreck.

Sunken Treasure: Lena Cargo

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Tauromaquia : The Art of Bullfighting

Lena Herzog

Humor & Entertainment

Book by Goddio, Franck, Crick, Monique, Lam, Peter, Pierson, Stacey, Scott, Rosemary

Pierson, Stacey

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