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Analyzing The Luna Assemblage Of 16th-Century Majolica Ceramics (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry Worth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1559-1561 Luna settlement of Pensacola, Florida has provided a plethora of archaeological research material, and among this cloud of information the subject of majolica ceramics is one that has not yet been analyzed in depth for this site. This paper is a preview into the graduate thesis research topic that I will study to...


Blue and White Chinese porcelain with datable 16th-century mounts (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Pomper.

Besides learning from sherds that have been turned up by terrestrial and underwater archaologists, we can learn more about dating Chinese porcelain from pieces found with datable mounts in European collections.  Five pieces of blue and white porcelain now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York were originally in Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, where they may have come via trade with Turkey.  They are significant because there were very few pieces of Chinese...