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Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England — a new brief post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2020/12/another-medieval-chinese-coin-from-england.html
The map included in the above tweet & post is of the distribution of archaeological & textual evidence for the presence of medieval Chinese pottery (black open circles) & coins (blue dots) west of India, set against the max extent of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century in red.
The previous post can be read here: 'An eleventh-century Chinese coin in Britain and the evidence for East Asian contacts in the medieval period' — http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/03/an-eleventh-century-chinese-coin.html
A meeting between King Edward I of England and Rabban Bar Sauma, a monk & diplomat from China who visited 13th-century Europe: http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm#c48
A 15th-century image of James of Ireland and Odoric of Pordenone in Sumatra in the 1320s, from BnF Français 2810, f.104r; they subsequently travelled to China, where they stayed for 3 years before returning back to Europe: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000858n/f213.item
'The Eastern Parts of the World Described', by Odoric of Pordenone, 1330: https://archive.org/stream/cathaywaythither02yule#page/96/mode/2up
Matthew Paris's 13th-century account of the capture of an Englishman who acted as envoy for the Mongols during their European invasion c.1241 is also interesting—he had lost everything gambling at Acre, Israel, and then travelled east & joined the Mongols: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/03/an-eleventh-century-chinese-coin.html
The tombstone of Katerina Ilioni, daughter of the Genoese merchant Domenico Ilioni, dated 1342 and found at Yangzhou, China: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YangzhouKatarinaVilioniTomb1342.jpg
A distribution map of Chinese late 10th- to 15th-century qingbai ware in Arabia and East Africa; fragments of Chinese qingbai ware have also been found in a 14th-century context at Winchester and in Italy: http://journals.openedition.org/afriques/1836
For more on finds of (and references to) Chinese pottery in medieval European contexts, including late 14th-century Winchester, see David Whitehouse, 'Chinese porcelain in medieval Europe', Medieval Archaeology, 16 (1972): http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol16/16_063_078.pdf
The Gaignères-Fonthill vase, an early 14th-century Chinese porcelain vase that seems to have arrived in Europe during the medieval period: https://jekely.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/note-on-fonthill-vase.html
The so-called 'Marco Polo jar', a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Chinese Qingbai porcelain jar found in the Treasury of San Marco in Venice: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317076925_A_Chinese_Porcelain_Jar_Associated_with_Marco_Polo_A_Discussion_from_an_Archaeological_Perspective
A detail from Andrea di Bonaiuto's fresco 'The Way of Salvation/The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant', c. 1365–8, with the figures at the centre identified by Jacques Paviot as an English knight of the Garter talking to a Mongol...: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Way-of-salvation-church-militant-triumphant-andrea-di-bonaiuto-1365.jpg
A bright red silk cover from the medieval skull reliquary of King Eric IX of Sweden, believed to be made from Chinese silk: http://www.glossa.fi/mirator/pdf/i-2015/themedievalskullrelic.pdf
Some recent finds of 11th-century Chinese coins reported from Ethiopia & Zanzibar: https://www.academia.edu/5999530/Identification_of_a_Chinese_coin_found_in_Kuumbi_Cave_Zanzibar_by_prof._Felix_Chami & https://www.academia.edu/2566792/Northern_Song_coin_finds_in_Harla_Ethiopia_point_to_newly_found_silk_routes_from_China_to_the_Horn_of_Africa & https://www.academia.edu/8407965/A_second_Chinese_North_Song_coin_from_Kuumbi_Cave_Tanzania_is_identified
'Chinese coin hints at vast medieval trade route' — https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-coin-hints-at-vast-medieval-trade-route-z9hq8rb20 :)
