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CHAPTER 5 Porcelain Trade at Canton 1740-1760

contrary, although in smaller quantities, the trade of enamelled porcelain enjoyed

steady growth. The informal market of enamelled porcelain thus attracted more

dealers into the trade, resulting in an increasing number of porcelain shops at Canton

during this period.

This chapter also shed light on the discussion of enamelled porcelain production.

It challenged the unchanged assumption that Canton has its own enamelled workshops

of painting porcelain around the 1730s. By drawing attention to Chinese textual

records and the data from the EEIC, this research demonstrated that it was not until

the late 1750s, Canton started to produce enamelled porcelain of a large scale.

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