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CHAPTER 3 Enamelled Porcelain Consumption in Eighteenth-century China
Figure 3-15 A peddler was selling porcelain.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, c.1730-50s, Watercolour on silk.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France digital collection:
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40358242f, accessed on 9 September, 2015.
3.6.4. Routes of Porcelain Transportation
The relative ease of transportation on the Chang River and its tributaries was a key
circumstance in the successful development of the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen.
Despite Jingdezhen’s location in the remote corner of Jiangxi province, these boats
and ships managed to transport huge volumes of ceramics to domestic markets as far
away as Beijing, as well as to different seaports for shipping overseas.
The porcelain street and the market were set up along the Chang River. All
Jingdezhen ceramics began their long journeys on the Chang River loaded on small
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