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Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950 Raquel A. G. Reyes Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950 Raquel A. G. Reyes Editor Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950 Editor Raquel A. G. Reyes Department of History School of Oriental and African Studies London, UK ISBN 978-1-137-57236-3 ISBN 978-1-137-57237-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57237-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018957683 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Melisa Hasan This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Limited The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom For Gaia Tera Vida Reyes A cknowledgements This book was inspired by a chance meeting with Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Michael North at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Wassenaar, where they and I were both fellows in 2010. We continued talking and sharing ideas at the International Convention for Asian Scholars (ICAS) in Hawai’i in the following year. After trips to the Philippines to look at church architecture, and to Jakarta to visit VOC landmarks, the book started to materialize. I warmly thank the contributors to this book for their friendship and faith in me over the years; Benito J. Legarda, Jnr and Jim Richardson for their encouragement and constructive comments; and the editors at Palgrave Pivot who worked closely with me every step of the way. Amsterdam, The Netherlands Raquel A. G. Reyes London, UK vii c ontents Introduction 1 Raquel A. G. Reyes Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art History: An Art of Mediation in Circulation 13 Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Paradise in Stone: Representations of New World Plants and Animals on Spanish Colonial Churches in the Philippines 43 Raquel A. G. Reyes Betel, Tobacco and Beverages in Southeast Asia 75 William Gervase Clarence-Smith Domestic Interiors in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Batavia 103 Michael North Index 123 ix n c otes on ontributors William Gervase Clarence-Smith is Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His research interests include the History of tropical beverages, masticatories, livestock, and textiles; Middle Eastern diasporas; religion, slavery and sexual norms with special reference to Southeast Asia. He is the author of The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century (Reprint of 1989 edition; Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015); Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (London: Hurst & Company, 2006); and Cocoa and Chocolate 1765–1914 (Routledge, 2000). Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at the University of Princeton. He teaches and pub- lishes on European art and architecture 1500–1800 in its global con- text, the theory and practice of world art history, and the geography and historiography of art. He has been a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin and is a member of the Royal Flemish, Polish, and Swedish Academies of Science. He is the author of several books including Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History and Still-Life Painting (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and co-editor of Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (Amsterdam University Press and University of Chicago Press, 2014). Michael North is Chair of Modern History at the University of Greifswald. He is a specialist in monetary and financial history and of the xi xii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS history of commerce and culture. In 2010–2011, he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Modern German Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books includ- ing Material Delight and the Joy of Living: Cultural Consumption in Germany in the Age of Enlightenment (Aldershot, 2008), Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia, 1400–1900 (Surrey, 2010). Raquel A. G. Reyes is an associate research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and former British Academy post-doctoral fellow in London. She works on the history of science and medicine, history of gender and sexuality, global trade and local cultural innovation in early modern Southeast Asia, with par- ticular reference to the Philippines. She is the author of Love, Passion and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement (University of Washington Press and NUS Press, 2008) and co-editor of Sexual Diversity in Asia c.600–1950 (Routledge, 2012). She is also a col- umnist for the Manila Times. l f ist of igures Introduction Fig. 1 Virgin and Christ Child exhibited in The Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Photo by Author) 2 Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art History: An Art of Mediation in Circulation Fig. 1 Pyx for Communion Hosts, Japan, Momoyama Period, late sixteenth century, black lacquered cryptomeria wood decorated with gold and silver power and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, Lisbon, Museo de Arte Antiga, inv. 18 cx © Lisbon, Museo de Arte Antiga, Direção-Geral do Património Cultural/Arquivo de Documentação Fotográfica (DGPC/ADF) 19 Fig. 2 Portuguese escaping from a mined building at Hoogly, detail of The Capture of Port Hoogly, c. 1634, Padshanameh, Royal Library, Windsor Castle, fol. 117r, RCIN 1005025 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 29 Fig. 3 Tray (Batea) Mexico, seventeenth century. Lacquered wood with inlaid lacquer decoration, diameter 12 5/16 in. (56.7 cm) Hispanic Society of America LS1978 35 Paradise in Stone: Representations of New World Plants and Animals on Spanish Colonial Churches in the Philippines Fig. 1 Pan-ay Church, pineapple-shaped finials (Photo by Author) 53 Fig. 2 Paete Church, detail showing St James on horse-back (Photo by Author) 56 xiii

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This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people’s everyday
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