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CHAPTER 3 Enamelled Porcelain Consumption in Eighteenth-century China
agreement. Other staff are seen using traditional Chinese business tools such as the
abacus for calculating and steelyard for weighing silver currency. The buyer needs to
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pay the seller about twenty-five per cent of the whole price as a deposit.
74 Jiangxi sheng qinggongye taoci yanjiu suo, (ed.), Jingdezhen taoci shigao [Historical research
of Jingdezhen Porcelain] (Beijing, 1959), p.320.
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