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CHAPTER 6 A New Context of Porcelain Trade 1760-1770
the production was organised by a craft guild called hall of lingsitang (灵思堂). The
date of establishing of this guild was in 1778, and it still existed until the early
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twentieth century. In a painting of depicting the production of porcelain from the
collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, Lingsitang appeared in a scene of
enamelling. (Figure 6-7) This painting is from a set of 24 depicting the porcelain
industry in China. Paintings such as this were targeted at Europeans eager to find out
the secrets of porcelain manufacture in China.
Figure 6-7 Potters painting porcelain, c.1770-1790.
Watercolour and ink on paper. Height: 40 cm, Width: 60 cm.
Photo Courtesy of Victorian and Albert Museum, E.50-1910.
73 After 1911, the guild was taken over by the local government and it became a main enamelled
porcelain manufacture until the late 1980s. Guangdong sheng defang zhi bianzuan weiyuanhui,
Guangdong shengzhi: Qionggongye zhi [The crafts industry of Canton] (Guangzhou, 1995), vol.6,
p.232.
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