An expensive aquamanile meant to represent the Caquesseitão. The cryptid became a common motif in Indian-Portuguese art, specially aquamaniles.
The Caquesseitão is a flying cryptid from the Island of Samatra, Indonesia, described by Portuguese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, in his book "Peregrinação"
Description[]
Fernão Mendes Pinto mentions in his book to have seen a creature;
"the size of a big duck, very black, curved in the back, with spikes down the spine the length of a quill and with wings like those of bats, with a snake-like neck and a nail, like a rooster's spore in the forehead, with a very long tail in green and black just like the lizards of this land."
Theories[]
The mainstream theory is that the Caquesseitão is simply a chimeric fictional creature, despite being inserted in an otherwise purported work of truth, detailing Fernão's travels, with many other ethnographic and geographic details.
Despite this, the fact the description does resemble other neopterosaurs and that Fernão Mendes Pinto affirms the creature to exist and to have seen it may point to it being one of the earliest sightings of a neopterosaur in Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region.