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CHAPTER 7 Porcelain Dealers and their Role in Trade

shopkeepers could reduce the risk that some porcelain decorations were not in the

latest fashion, and could be left in stock. Such sales methods aimed to clinch a sale

quickly and to reduce the amount of time they spent in contact with manufacture at a

distance, in Jingdezhen.

Figure 7-5 A Canton porcelain shop.
Watercolour on silk, Dimension: unknown, c.1750s.
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Fonds du service
reproduction, RESERVE PET FOL-OE-104, Paris.
This album has been realised online from 29/06/2014.

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