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CHAPTER 5 Porcelain Trade at Canton 1740-1760

saucers decorated with a cock on a rock at flowering peony plants. Both of them were

signed with the inscription ‘honor and wealth, written on the day of the flowers in the

year jiachen [1724] in a beautiful house on the Zhujiang river’ (功名富贵甲辰苍朝

写于珠江精舍).

Figure 5-3 Enamelled Porcelain dish, Inscription and flowers.c.1723-1735.
Museum no.1890,1006.5.
Photo Courtesy of the British Museum.

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