The Cultural Center of the Reserve Bank of the Dominican Republic (Banreservas) is the host to a major display of artifacts salvaged from shipwrecks around the island of Hispaniola.
There have been modern-day tales of fishermen selling Ming dynasty porcelains on the streets of Santiago during the 1960s for RD$10.00 each! Now, a large number of these items are on display at the Banreservas Cultural Center, in the Ada Balcacer Hall.
The exhibition is called “Undersea treasures, Antiquities: Shipwrecks Salvaged from the Seas.” The star of the show are the porcelains from the Ming Dynasty, recovered from the wreck of the Concepcion, which left Veracruz, Mexico in 1641. According to reports, these porcelains belonged to the widow of Hernan Cortes, the Conquistador of Mexico and the first Marques of the Oaxaca Valley during the early part of the XVI century.
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El Caribe
24 February 2020