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CHAPTER 3 Enamelled Porcelain Consumption in Eighteenth-century China
Figure 3-14 An example of porcelain retailers in Jingdezhen.
Gouache on paper, 41 x 31 cm, c.1730s.
Source: Digital collection of the Library of Lund University
http://bilder.ub.lu.se/application/index.cfm?search=fulltext&argument=lund&collection
=7, accessed on 9 September 2015.
Apart from porcelain shops and these retailers, there were also porcelain peddlers
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who travelled to the town and found chances to deal. Figure 3-15 shows a peddler
carrying a basket of porcelain pieces, while a buyer was examining the quality of one
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piece. As is stated in Jingdezhen taolu:
Small peddlers also came to the town; they were called ‘Island basket
carriers’ 提洲篮者.They usually carried large baskets with all sorts of
porcelain that they had purchased directly from the potters. They also
gathered around to Huang Island for chances to sell their pieces.
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Sometimes their porcelains were of fine quality.
81 Lan Pu, Jingdezhen taolu, p.113.
82 This is a leaf from an album painting on porcelain manufacture of the eighteenth century,
collected in Bibliothèque nationale de France. It has fifty leaves. This album has been realised
online from 29/06/2014, see, http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40358242f
83 Lan Pu, Jingdezhen taolu, p.113.
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