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CHAPTER 7 Porcelain Dealers and their Role in Trade

Map 6 Map of the south China.

Source: Marks Robert, Worster Donald and Crosby Alfred W. (eds.), Studies in
Environment and History: Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in
Late Imperial South China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), Map.8.4,
p.260.

The name of the Huiguan indicates that Zhaoqing was also involved in the

porcelain trade with Jingdezhen. It is reasonable to suppose that Guangzhao huiguan

at Jingdezhen were supported merchants from Guangzhou and Zhaoqing. Because the

production of enamelled copper wares and porcelain shared similar techniques, it is

arguable that merchants from Zhaoqing could also travel to Jingdezhen and purchase

porcelain with no decoration, and re-fire again locally at their own workshops.

Our knowledge of this huiguan’s details at Jingdezhen is limited, but in a text of

a later period, Liu Zifen noted that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Canton

porcelain dealers travelled to Jingdezhen to buy porcelain with no decorations and

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