The ceiling of the Santos Palace in Lisbon and its Importance as a Historical Document.

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Documenting the Built Environment (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

An interesting assemblage of Chinese ceramics from the 16th and 17th century has been found in Panama. Many can be compared to pieces on the ceiling of a small dining room of the Santos Palace in Lisbon, which is now the French Embassy. There are 263 plates and 96 dishes, fastened by iron nails which had been made into hooks. The pieces were collected by the Portuguese kings beginning with Manuel I (r. 1495-1521) and then by the Lancastre family who owned the Palace in the 17th century. Acquisitions ceased in 1613. In 1981 these dishes were taken down, cleaned and catalogued by Daisy Lion -Goldschmidt of the Musee Guimet in Paris. This celing is an important historical document which can be used to identify some of the sherds from Panama which I plan to show in my talk.  

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• Documenting the Built Environment (General Sessions)   •
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