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CHAPTER 6 A New Context of Porcelain Trade 1760-1770
This shop (Fuyuan means the source of fortunate) accepts orders to
make porcelain in various foreign designs either in landscape or
figure decoration.
Gold characters were written in red board, which seemed very attractive to
visitors. Apart from the big attractive shop sign, porcelain decorators were shown in
the shop. This scene was probably seen by many foreign traders at Canton that time.
For instance, an American visitor, John R. Latimer described one of the porcelain
shops in 1815:
The second apartment was the pencilling room where there were a great
number of men and boys employed, stowed as close and not dissimilar to
a school. It is surprising with what diligence and patience a man would
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with a small pencil lay on the gilding and colours of each piece.
69 Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain, p.74.
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