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CHAPTER 3 Enamelled Porcelain Consumption in Eighteenth-century China
Map 3 Water transportation routes of Jingdezhen porcelain during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
Source: Sten Sjostrand and Sharipah Lok Lok bt. Syed Idrus, The Wanli Shipwreck and its
Ceramic Cargo (Kuala Lumpur: Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, 2007), p.65.
The journey took up to two days from Jingdezhen to Poyang Lake, and small
boats were transferred to larger boats that proceeded through the lake into Yangzi
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River 长江. The journey from Jingdezhen to the Yangzi River took about a week
in spring and summer, with the river full, but during the winter low water period, a
87 Jiangxi sheng qinggongye taoci yanjiu suo, Jingdezhen taoci shigao, p.321.
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