Porcelain shards from Portuguese wrecks: Raman spectroscopic analysis of marine archaeological ceramics

Abstract Raman spectroscopic analysis of shards recovered from two Portuguese shipwrecks, the Santo Espirito (1608) and the Santa Maria Madre de Deus (1643), believed to be carrying porcelains of the Ming period have revealed some interesting and novel results that inform historical ideas of porcela...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth A. Carter, Michelle L. Wood, Danita de Waal, Howell G. M. Edwards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-05-01
Series:Heritage Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-017-0130-9