Treasure Ships : Art in the Age of Spices

ART

Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices presents the complex artistic and cultural interactions between Europe and Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries – a period known as the Age of Spices. The book includes nearly 300 outstanding and rarely seen works of ceramics, decorative arts, furniture, metalware, paintings, prints and textiles from public and private collections in Australia, India, Portugal, Singapore and the United States. The works of art illustrated reveal how the international trade in spices and other exotic commodities inspired dialogue between Asian and European artists, a centuries-old conversation whose heritage is the aesthetic globalism we know today. Highlights include a diverse range of Christian works of art created in ports such as Goa and Nagasaki from collections in Portugal and India, two works from the personal collection of Queen Adelaide (1792-1849) after whom the city of Adelaide is named, artefacts retrieved from the Batavia, which sank off the Western Australian coast in the seventeenth century, to name a few. pp. 352 colour illustrations, plates, maps 247 x 325 x 33mm
“A highlight for the Art Gallery of South Australia in June will be the much anticipated ‘Treasure ships : art in the Age of Spices’ which is the first exhibition in Australia to present the complex artistic and cultural interactions between Europe and Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries – a period known as the Age of Spices. This exhibition includes 300 outstanding and rarely-seen works of ceramics, decorative arts, furniture, metalware, paintings, prints and textiles from public and private collections in Australia, India, Portugal, Singapore and the United States. The works of art selected reveal how the international trade in spices and other exotic commodities inspired dialogue between Asian and European artists, a centuries old conversation whose heritage is the aesthetic globalism we know today. A highlight of the exhibition will be a diverse range of Christian artwork created at ports such as Goa and Nagasaki on loan from Portugal and India as well as the inclusion of two works from the personal collection of Queen Adelaide (1792-1849) after whom the city of Adelaide is named. Another highlight will be artefacts retrieved from the Batavia, which sank off the Western Australian coast in the seventeenth century. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Western Australia.”
Preface / James Bennett and Russell Kelty
Spices / James Bennett
Mapping the sea and sky / James Bennett
Portugal and the State of India / James Bennett
Netherlands and the United East Indies Company / James Bennett
The Ambonese curiosity cabinet / Joost Daalder
Engraving Eastern discoveries / Robert J. Del Bontà
Fish catch / Tracey Lock-Weir
Jesuit journeys : cross-cultural exchange in Christianity in Asia / FR Jeremy Clarke, SJ
Islam and the West / James Bennett
The world of the pesisir kingdoms / James Bennett
The first Argonauts / Bruce Carpenter
Marege / James Bennett
Treasure ships / Russell Kelty
Twelve ships / Wayne Crothers
From medicine pot to mizusashi : appropriating Europe in Japanese art / Richard L. Wilson
Indian textiles for Southeast Asia and other markets / James Bennett
Chinoiserie in Europe / Carol Cains
Britain and India / Judith Heaven
Catalogue of works
Books and manuscripts
Ceramics
Decorative arts
Furniture and architectural pieces
Maps and globes
Metalware
Paintings
Sculptures
Textiles and costumes
Shipwreck artefacts
Woodcut prints, engravings and etchings
Works on paper.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 13 June-30 August 2015 ; Art Gallery of Western Australia, 9 October 2015-31 January 2016.

Bibliography: pages 341-348.
Art, Asian — European influences — Exhibitions. | Art, European — Oriental influences — Exhibitions. | East and West — Exhibitions. | Asia — Relations — Europe — Exhibitions. | Europe — Relations — Asia — Exhbitions. | Asia — Commerce — Europe — History — Exhibitions. | Europe — Commerce — Asia — History — Exhibitions. | Australian

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