Page 165 - The colours of each piece: production and consumption of Chinese enamelled porcelain, c.1728-c.1780
P. 165
CHAPTER 3 Enamelled Porcelain Consumption in Eighteenth-century China
exactly the same journey from Nanchang to Canton in 1693, as envoy of Emperor
94
Kangxi, it took him twenty days. If we add four to five days for the journey from
Jingdezhen to Nanchang, this makes a total of twenty-five days travelling time from
Jingdezhen to Canton.
Figure 3-16 A porcelain dealer and his porters are crossing the Meiling Pass.
Album leaf, watercolours, mid-eighteenth century.
Source: Walter August Staehelin (Author), Michael Bullock (Translator) The
Book of Porcelain: Manufacture, Transport and Sale of Export Porcelain in China
During the 18th Century (London, 1966), plate 29.
94 Du Halde, A description of the empire of China, vol.1, pp.66-67.
149
