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during eighteenth century. Roberto Junco Sanchez, Guadalupe Pinzón, and Etsuko
Miyata co-authored The Chinese Porcelain from the Port of San Blas, Mexico
reported the latest discovery of the archaeological program on the San Blas seaport
in 2016 and 2017. The authors analyzed the Chinese porcelain shards collected
from the site including both mostly the Jingdezhen wares, and a few of Zhangzhou
wares and Dehua wares. Most of these porcelains were dated from 1740 to 1780s
perfectly !tting with the duration of the Maritime Department. Typologically, these
ceramics covered both the traditional Chinese types as blue and white with “willow
pattern” and red painting over glaze “Guanzai”, and some westernized types of
ceramics as Western motifs painting pattern on the wares. Anyway, these materials
added the new and important information to understand the transpaci!c commercial
history of galleon trade.

Karime Castillo

After arriving in New Spain by the galleon trade, the Chinese ceramics had
passed from Acapulco to Veracruz through the New Spain, not only providing the
elite with luxury goods, but also being the most important sources of inspiration
influenced the local majolica potters of New Spain. A Study of the Chinese Influence
on Mexican Ceramics by Karime Castillo and Patricia Fournier presented an
interesting and enlightening comparing research on the ceramics cross-cultural
exchange between Mexican and Chinese. This study focuses on the influence of
Chinese porcelain in colonial Mexican majolica with a particular emphasis on
ornament understood as a term that articulates both surface and decorative motifs.
The paper reveals that the Chinese ornament was adopted and adapted by colonial
potters into a style of their own, reflecting the insertion of majolica in which some
of these Chinese elements had been abstracted to be part of the traditional Mexican
majolica in the global networks of maritime cultural exchange.
In brief, our international workshop on the archaeological investigations and
researches of galleon af!liated seaports made a multiparagraph reconstruction of
Spanish galleon transpaci!c navigation. Along this pan-Paci!c sea route, Yuegang,