Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture: Red, white and blue?

The Dutch East India Company ship Zuiddorp (also known as Zuytdorp) met its demise in 1712 at the base of steep cliffs along the Western Australian coast. Material from the shipwreck includes an extraordinary example of a caryatid herm from the ship's stern counter. A recent study of this sculp...

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Main Authors: Van Duivenvoorde, W., Kaiser, B., Megens, L., Van Bronswijk, Wilhelm
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52890
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author Van Duivenvoorde, W.
Kaiser, B.
Megens, L.
Van Bronswijk, Wilhelm
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description The Dutch East India Company ship Zuiddorp (also known as Zuytdorp) met its demise in 1712 at the base of steep cliffs along the Western Australian coast. Material from the shipwreck includes an extraordinary example of a caryatid herm from the ship's stern counter. A recent study of this sculpture and the pigments found on its surface demonstrates Zuiddorp's archaic stern construction and adornment, which is more of a late 17th-century, than an early 18th-century, Dutch Indiaman. This paper discusses the results of this study and emphasizes how the smallest pieces of evidence can broaden our understanding of contemporaneous regional Dutch East India Company shipbuilding practices. © Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology 2016.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-528902018-01-16T07:49:16Z Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture: Red, white and blue? Van Duivenvoorde, W. Kaiser, B. Megens, L. Van Bronswijk, Wilhelm The Dutch East India Company ship Zuiddorp (also known as Zuytdorp) met its demise in 1712 at the base of steep cliffs along the Western Australian coast. Material from the shipwreck includes an extraordinary example of a caryatid herm from the ship's stern counter. A recent study of this sculpture and the pigments found on its surface demonstrates Zuiddorp's archaic stern construction and adornment, which is more of a late 17th-century, than an early 18th-century, Dutch Indiaman. This paper discusses the results of this study and emphasizes how the smallest pieces of evidence can broaden our understanding of contemporaneous regional Dutch East India Company shipbuilding practices. © Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology 2016. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52890 10.1080/00794236.2015.1124196 restricted
spellingShingle Van Duivenvoorde, W.
Kaiser, B.
Megens, L.
Van Bronswijk, Wilhelm
Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture: Red, white and blue?
title Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture: Red, white and blue?
title_full Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture: Red, white and blue?
title_fullStr Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture: Red, white and blue?
title_full_unstemmed Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture: Red, white and blue?
title_short Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture: Red, white and blue?
title_sort pigments from the zuiddorp (zuytdorp) ship sculpture: red, white and blue?
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52890