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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. xxiii
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1690. Kjempfer went to Japan, and tells us the Dutch
were then allowed to 100 bales of china-ware
export annually
(Kaempfer, i. 371).
—
1692. Peter the Great's ambassador to China " The
writes,
iinest china is not exported, or at least very rarely."
—
1694-1705. Dresden collection formed the
by Augustus
Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony.
1708-1718. — Jesuit Fathers made their survey of China.
—
1712. Pere d'Entrecolles, writing in this year, mentions
brown and coffee glazes as recent inventions ; his letters date
1712-1722, in which he states there were then 3000 furnaces
in
King-te-chin.
—
1723-1736. Yung-ching period. This emperor reaped
the benefit of his father's vigorous administration, and enjoyed
a
peaceable reign.
1721 1 Date-marks on in Sir A. W. Franks's
.. „'
.. r70
^ K eggshell
collection.
1721-1764.— Madame Pompadour lived. Established at
Versailles by Louis XV., 1745. M. Jacquemart tells us one
decorated in blue
description of mandarin china, seemingly
and white, was called after her.
1736-1795.— Sir A. W. Franks
Keen-lung period. says,
"A of fine china was made this
large quantity during long
reign, much of it exhibiting very rich and minute decoration."
Ambitious and warlike, this monarch converted Hi into a
Chinese afterwards Eastern Turkestan to
province, adding
China. Twice he invaded Burmah, and once he
penetrated
into Cochin-China, though not successfully. His generals
marched 70,000 men into Nepaul to within sixty miles of the
the Ghurkas, and the
British frontier, subjugating
receiving
submission of the He wrote
Nepaulese (1792). incessantly
both and and did much to the cause of
jioetry prose, promote
literature libraries and works of
by collecting republishing
value. After a of abdicated
reign sixty years, Keen-lung
in 1795 in favour of his fifteenth son, but only lived three
years in retirement, and died in 1798 at the age of eighty-
eight. During the reign of Keen-lung the relations of the
East India Company with his Government had not been satis-
factory, all kinds of unjust exactions being demanded of the