Author: JÖRG, C.J.A
Title: Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade
Description: Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1982, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9024790913). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 22 x 30.7 cm; 1.627 Kg; 372 pages containing a bibliography and an index. Among the 80 illustrations there are many that were never published before this publication.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket, namely edge wear, and scratches and wear marks on the front cover, spine and back cover, tiny tears on both right bottom corners of the front cover, minor tear on the top left side of the back cover. Interior with minor signs of wear. Good condition overall. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Translated from the Dutch by Patricia Wardle. Originally published as Porselein als handelswaar, Groningen 1978. First english edition.; Chine de Commande is the term commonly used at present to denote Chinese porcelain which was made to order, and the forms and/or the decoration of which are borrowed from European models. This distinguishes it from porcelain which was bought in China by the Europeans as an article of commerce, but which is entirely Chinese in form and decoration. Curiously enough, china trade in the 18th century has hardly attracted any attention up till now, in contrast to China trade by the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century or its trade with Japan. In order to fill the gap this book aims at giving an insight into the organization of the trade both in the Netherlands and in China itself, as well as into the course taken by the trade of the goods involved over the period 1729-1795. In addition, an impression is offered of the life lived by the Dutch in China. In the chapters the most important facts and events are mentioned on the basis of source material mainly kept in the National Archives in the Hague. Also, the porcelain trade is placed in its economic and historical context, which may be worked out in still more detail by subsequent research. In four chapters the author, who was the curator of the Department of Arts and Crafts and Oriental Ceramics at the Groninger Museum, The Netherlands at the time this book was published, describes the China trade by the Dutch East India Company, life and trade in Canton, the porcelain trade and the decoration and types of porcelain. The appendices give lists of ships and personnel in Canton of the Dutch East India Company; an inventory of the factory; a financial survey of the trade; the gross profits on the return cargos; a survey of types and decorations of the porcelain shipped to the Netherlands between 1729 and 1793. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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