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Table of Contents

Declaration .............................................................................................................................. 2
Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................... i
List of Illustrations ................................................................................................................. iv

List of Tables ......................................................................................................................... vi
List of Maps .......................................................................................................................... vii

List of Abbreviations ........................................................................................................... viii
Currency ................................................................................................................................. ix

Abstract ................................................................................................................................... x
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................. xi

CHAPTER 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1
1.1. Clarification of Terminology ....................................................................................... 2
1.2. Main Arguments and Objectives .................................................................................. 5

1.3. Research Context ......................................................................................................... 8
1.3.1. Enamelled Porcelain and Art History ................................................................... 9

1.3.2. Enamelled Porcelain and the Chinese Export Porcelain Trade ........................... 16
1.3.3. Enamelled Porcelain and Global History ............................................................ 24

1.4. Sources ....................................................................................................................... 28
1.4.1. Imperial Workshops Archives ............................................................................ 29

1.4.2. The English East India Company Canton Factory Records ................................ 31
1.4.3. Textual Records on Porcelain Manufacture ........................................................ 39
1.4.4. Visual Representations ........................................................................................ 42

1.5. Structure of the Thesis ............................................................................................... 47
CHAPTER 2. The Production of Enamelled Porcelain and Knowledge Transfer ................ 50

2.1. Introduction ................................................................................................................ 50
2.2. Over-glaze Porcelain Production Prior to the Eighteenth Century ............................ 51

2.3. Enamelled Porcelain Production of the Eighteenth Century ...................................... 55
2.3.1. The Enamel Workshop at the Court .................................................................... 55

2.3.2. Manufacture Process of Porcelain ....................................................................... 57
2.3.3. Manufacture Process of Enamelled Porcelain ..................................................... 65
Making Enamel Colours ............................................................................... 65

Preparing Enamel Colours ............................................................................ 67
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