Page 7 - The colours of each piece: production and consumption of Chinese enamelled porcelain, c.1728-c.1780

List of Illustrations

CHAPTER 1

Figure 1-1 Photos of the Imperial Archives of the Imperial Household Department. .......... 30
Figure 1-2 A contract of porcelain between dealer Tunqua and the EEIC at Canton. .......... 34

CHAPTER 2

Figure 2-1 Crushing the clay using a wheel. ......................................................................... 59
Figure 2-2 Buffaloes pounding and treading the powdered clay in a pool. .......................... 60
Figure 2-3 Women sieving the clay. ..................................................................................... 60
Figure 2-4 Shaping the body on a wheel, late 18th century. ................................................. 61
Figure 2-5 Glazing the wares. ............................................................................................... 62
Figure 2-6 Detail of Figure 2-5. ............................................................................................ 63
Figure 2-7 Getting porcelain out of the kiln. ........................................................................ 64
Figure 2-8 Grinding pink enamel colours, circa.1800. ......................................................... 68
Figure 2-9 Painting enamel colours on porcelain. ................................................................ 70
Figure 2-10 Painting workshop in modern Jingdezhen......................................................... 70
Figure 2-11 Open stove of firing enamelled porcelain. ........................................................ 71
Figure 2-12 An eighteenth century closed stove. .................................................................. 72
Figure 2-13 A piece of design for an enamelled porcelain bowl. ......................................... 92
Figure 2-14 A piece of enamelled bowl painted after the design of Figure 2-13. ................ 92

CHAPTER 3

Figure 3-1 Enamelled porcelain bowl with a four-character blue Kangxi yuzhi mark. ........ 97
Figure 3-2 Porcelain painted in over-glaze enamels. .......................................................... 107
Figure 3-3 Immortal Blossoms in an Everlasting Spring. ................................................... 108
Figure 3-4 Bowl enamelled with Butterfly medallions. ...................................................... 109
Figure 3-5 A list of imported goods from Western countries via Canton during the

eighteenth century. .............................................................................................................. 111
Figure 3-6 Detail from painting Prosperous Suzhou depicting a foreign goods store. ....... 116
Figure 3-7 Pair of enamelled dishes with painting pattern of flower brocade and figures. .127
Figure 3-8 Detail of painting Prosperous Suzhou depicting porcelain manufacture’s
advertisement. ..................................................................................................................... 128
Figure 3-9 Palace scenes with figures with details of a pair of enamelled porcelain.......... 130
Figure 3-10 A brief trade process of porcelain in Jingdezhen during the eighteenth century.
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Figure 3-11 A porcelain dealer’s welcome banquet by his trade guild. .............................. 135
Figure 3-12 Placing orders, fixing the price. ...................................................................... 139
Figure 3-13 Locations of porcelain market at Jingdezhen during the early nineteenth

century. ............................................................................................................................... 141
Figure 3-14 An example of porcelain retailers in Jingdezhen. ........................................... 143
Figure 3-15 A peddler was selling porcelain. ..................................................................... 144
Figure 3-16 A porcelain dealer and his porters are crossing the Meiling Pass. .................. 149
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