Griffin on the Route of an Indiaman

In this publication, Franck Goddio presents the final results and conclusions of fifteen years of patient efforts of research, restoration and preservation of the thousands of items found on the wreck of the Honourable East Indian Company ship ‘Griffin", which sank with a cargo of porce-lain, silks and tea in the sulu Sea in 1761. In addition, the ‘Griffin" was part of a convoy sailing along a o far little –known and inventive alternate sea route -and accompanied a secret mission of the first importance for the policy of expansion which the East India Company aggressively if discreetly pursued at the time. The minute restoration, documentation and comparison of the vestiges of this ship-wreck cast new light on European trading patterns, but above all on our knowledge of the great Chinese art of porcelain manufacture and decoration and its master artists.