Historic Trade between East Asia and the Americas

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Mark Armao, The Beginning of Globalization. Wall Street Journal, Aug 15, 2015.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the- ... lization-1439577091

Note:
(a) This is an exhibition review on
Made in the Americas; The New World discovers Asia. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Aug 18, 2015-Feb 15, 2016
www.mfa.org/exhibitions/made-in-the-americas
(“The timing of the exhibition marks the 450th anniversary of the beginning of the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade between the Philippines and Mexico, which was inaugurated in 1565 and ended in 1815, two and a half centuries later”)

For Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade, see next posting.

(b) "Another object that demonstrates the synthesis of Asian and European styles is a mid-18th-century desk and bookcase from Puebla, Mexico. Wood and bone exterior panels bear the geometric designs of the Hispano-Moresque style, while the interior reveals Chinese-style coloration with gold figures painted on a red background."
(i) This paragraph describes the desk displayed in the WSJ review.
(ii)
(A) Puebla is the capital city of state of Puebla; Founded in 1531 out of nothing as a way station between Mexico City and the port of Veracruz, Puebla is a World Heritage Site.
(B) Puebla Is Neither Pueblo Nor a ‘pueblo.’ All About Puebla, undated
www.puebla-mexico.com/puebla-is-not-a-pueblo/
(“Puebla is a proper noun, the name of a state in Mexico and its capital city”)

* pueblo (noun masculine; from Latin noun masculine populus ‎people, nation): “1: town, village 2: people"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pueblo
(iii) Moresque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moresque

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(d) captions in the slideshow (of museum exhibition)
(i)
(A) Ward Nicholas Boylston (born in Boston and spent much of his life there; His father, Benjamin Hallowell; "In 1770 at the request of his uncle Nicholas Boylston, he dropped his surname of Hallowell and changed it to his uncle's name, Boylston, who promised to leave him certain large estates in his [uncle's]will. In 1773, Boylston left Boston for an extended journey through Europe and Asia")  Wikipedia
(B) Nicholas Boylston. Museum of Fine Arts (about 1769; accession number 23,504)
www.mfa.org/collections/object/nicholas-boylston-32060
("His firm, Green and Boylston, became extremely successful in the 1760s, importing from abroad the textiles, paper, tea, and glass eagerly sought by avidly consumerist Bostonians. * * * Just at the time Boylston was sitting for Copley [the painter], his [Boylston's] political perspective shifted: with a number of other businessmen (including [Richard] Clarke), he declined to support the nonimportation agreement that was instituted among Boston merchants in 1769. Because he was perceived as one of the 'First Merchants of the Town,' Boylston’s reluctance to support this boycott of British goods marked a significant break in the unity of colonial resistance; Samuel Adams denounced him and other similarly inclined businessmen as 'enemies of their country' ")

That is all there is about Boylsto's connection with the Asia trade.
(ii) "Kanō Naizen, Southern Barbarians Come to Trade, about 1600."  狩野 内膳, 南蛮人渡来図. 神戸市立博物館.

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(c) " 'Made in the Americas' will move to the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Delaware, beginning in March 2016."
(i) Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterthur_Museum,_Garden_and_Library
(in Winterthur, Delaware)
(ii) Winterthur, Delaware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterthur,_Delaware
(“The community takes its name from the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. This museum is named after the 6th-largest city in Switzerland, Winterthur”)
(iii) The namesake in Switzerland:

Winterthur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterthur
(iv) Regarding the benefactor of the museum, and pronunciation of Winterthur.

About Winterthur. Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, undated
http://www.winterthur.org/?p=515&src=headerfooter
(“Almost 60 years ago, collector and horticulturist Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969) opened his childhood home, Winterthur, to the public. Today, Winterthur (pronounced ‘winter-tour’) is the premier museum of American decorative arts, with an unparalleled collection of nearly 90,000 objects made or used in America between about 1640 and 1860. The collection is displayed in the magnificent 175-room house“)
(v) Why named after a city in Switzerland?  
(A) You see, Henry Francis du Pont was a member of du Pont clan.
(B) Yet the patriarch EI du Pont arrived from France (seeking asylum).

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éleuthère_Irénée_du_Pont
(1771 – 1834; caption of a painting: "mentor Antoine Lavoisier"/ landed at Rhode Island on Jan 1, 1800)
(C) History of Winterthur. Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, undated
www.winterthur.org/?p=521
("1837  Jacques Antoine Bidermann, and his wife, Evelina, a daughter of E. I. du Pont, purchase the property from the other siblings and begin construction on a 12-room house. They name it Winterthur after Bidermann's ancestral home in Switzerland")