Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950

142 Pages·2019·3.32 MB·English

by  Raquel A. G. Reyes

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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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