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Influence of Japanese Namban Lacquer in New Spain, Focusing on Enconchado Furniture

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This work studies one type of artistic production from the Viceroyalty of New Spain during the second half of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the following century. Furniture decorated with the technique of enconchado is studied to point out the influence of Namban lacquer as well as the relationship with enconchado painting, a better known and studied corpus than furniture, and also its link to Mexican lacquer, maque. The identification and study of three pieces of furniture that feature the enconchado technique, and a cross, probably decorated with maque, offer a complementary vision of the art of enconchado and allow us to consider enconchado furniture an independent artistic genre.

Source: Heritage

DOI: 10.3390/heritage7030071

Authors: Yayoi Kawamura, Ana García Barrios

Institution: Universidad de Oviedo

Language: English

Topic: Historical Art and Architecture Studies

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,819

Funder: Agencia Estatal de Investigación