Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

CM88 - Patterned Earthenware

Cumberland

Carving dish (two thirds of): Spode ‘Shooting a Leopard in a Tree’ pattern. Depicts hunters on elephants in the jungle with dogs around the base of a tree where they have presumably located a leopard (upper part of design missing).
Printed marks: SPODE and SHOOTING A LEOPARD in large capitals.
Impressed mark: SPODE 1

Site Area Code South West

Site Location W 7 / N 13

Number of Items 1

Material Patterned Earthenware

Museum Reference

Registration Number 88

ID 7268

Status Commonwealth

Artefacts

Cumberland

The ship Cumberland was built of teak, iron fastened with iron knees, and had been sheathed with copper. It had two decks, and carried a proofed chain anchor cable as well as two coir rope cables. The vessel’s loaded draught was 17 ft (5.18 m). It was owned by Steel, Lamden and Company, and, under the command of Anthony Steel, had delivered a cargo of 16??000 bushels of wheat from Bombay to...

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