A plate Chinese export porcelain blue decoration "Pineapples, guavas or loquats and Indian mangoes" Qianlong period (1736-1795) small chips Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 23 cm Notes: "Blue and white porcelain with this unusual motif was recovered from the shipwreck of the Griffin, a London-built vessel that sank in 1761. The authors of this work identify the fruit as a pineapple flanked by small guavas (Psidium guajava) or loquats (Mespilus germanica), and, on the right, Indian mangoes (Mangifera indica)." - vd. GODDIO, Franck; SAINT MICHEL, Evelyne Jay Guyot de - Griffin, On The Route Of An Indiaman. English edition. Singapore: Periplus, 1999, pp. 226–227, est. XXV, fig. B. "A similar set of tableware, with slight variations, is in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, including a plate (inv. No. 2012.79). Some of this porcelain was recovered from the shipwreck of the Griffin, an East India Company vessel that sank off the coast of the Philippines during its return voyage from China, losing all of its precious cargo." - vd. CARVALHO, Teresa Nobre - "A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)" - https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.70042 - accessed on May 6, 2026, at 12:12 PM. Similar copy in the collection of the Williamsburg Colonial Foundation. - vd. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/historic-area/art-museums-of-colonial-williamsburg/exhibitions/china-of-the-most-fashionable-sort/ - accessed on May 7, 2026, at 4:49 PM