Enconchados: gustos, estrategias y precios en la Nueva España

Ruiz, Sonia I. Ocaña

doi:10.22201/iie.18703062e.2015.106.2541

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“…In 1769, the cargo of the galleon Nuestra Señora del Carmen from Manila to Acapulco contained, among other materials, "one box with 52 leaves of red lacquer for two folding screens" [4] (pp. [37][38]. The following year a "folding screen of red lacquer with golden flowers, two sided, with 24 leaves" [26] was shipped from Manila to Acapulco.…”

Section: Asian Lacquer Screens For the Spanish American Marketmentioning

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“…Baena Zapatero has posited that this screen was made in Manila [4] (pp. [37][38]. This is indeed a reasonable possibility since Manila was not only a distribution center of Asian works but also a production center.…”

Section: Asian Lacquer Screens For the Spanish American Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 1695 the screen had been appraised at 115 pesos; in 1704, it was appraised at 150 pesos. This is exceptional since the 1704 document shows that many of the other objects from the 1695 inventory had depreciated [37]. Over time, if objects remained in good condition, their prices would likely remain the same but certainly not appreciate in value.…”

Section: Chinese Lacquer Screen Descriptionmentioning

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Lacquer and Imitation Lacquer Folding Screens in New Spain

Ruiz

2023

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Folding screens were very popular in New Spain beginning in the late 16th century. From the second half of the 17th century on, many Chinese and some European lacquer folding screens circulated in New Spain, inspiring the development of Novohispanic lacquer, lacquer-like, and Chinese-style folding screens. The decorative technique of these Novohispanic folding screens has not been studied, but evidence suggests that some of them were made with techniques that have Pre-Columbian roots, others with European lacquer techniques, and others still with paint and varnish adapted to produce a shiny surface resembling that of Asian lacquer. Thus, 18th-century New Spain was the place where there was the widest variety of lacquer folding screens in the world. Hitherto this variety has remained unnoticed, but studying it is essential to understand to what extent the globalization of the taste for lacquer gave rise to innovative solutions in the Americas.

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Section: Asian Lacquer Screens For the Spanish American Marketmentioning

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Section: Asian Lacquer Screens For the Spanish American Marketmentioning

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Section: Chinese Lacquer Screen Descriptionmentioning

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Lacquer and Imitation Lacquer Folding Screens in New Spain

Ruiz

2023

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New material connections in a mother-of-pearl Enconchado from the Viceroyalty of New Spain

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Lazarte,

Centeno

2024

Herit Sci

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Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1695–1700), an enconchado painting attributed to Miguel González, active in Mexico in the late seventeenth century, exemplifies the refinement of the arts produced in Spanish America as a response to the taste for Asian goods during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The painting and its original mother-of-pearl inlaid frame were examined and analyzed using non-invasive and micro-sampling methods, an approach that permitted answering outstanding questions about the stratigraphy, pigments, and the use of shells throughout the painting and frame. The identification of the mother-of-pearl, determined to be from a Pinctada species, was a central focus of this study. In addition to the inlaid shells in the painting and frame, shell fragments were observed mixed with gypsum in the ground preparation of the painting by SEM–EDS. To our knowledge, this is a novel identification of marine shells in the ground of an easel painting. Traces of workmanship in the inlaid shells observed by SEM and optical microscopy are possibly connected to pre-Hispanic methodologies of mother-of-pearl refinement. Graphical Abstract

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Enconchados: gustos, estrategias y precios en la Nueva España

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Lacquer and Imitation Lacquer Folding Screens in New Spain

Lacquer and Imitation Lacquer Folding Screens in New Spain

New material connections in a mother-of-pearl Enconchado from the Viceroyalty of New Spain

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