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CHAPTER 6 A New Context of Porcelain Trade 1760-1770

Figure 6-5 A porcelain shop fuyuan dian (福源店).
A set of eleven paintings depicting porcelain production, late eighteenth

century. 14 x 19in (35.5 x 48.2cm) each painting.
Photo Courtesy of Bonham’s. This set of painting was auctioned on 17
March, 2014, New York.

John Henry Gray portrayed a similar scene but even larger scales of production

with details on the oven in the late nineteenth century in 1875:

We entered several houses, or Hongs, in which native artists were busily

engaged in painting designs of various kinds, on porcelain vases, punch

bowls, dinner, breakfast and dessert services…In this same part of the

Honan suburb, are the ovens in which the porcelain vessels to which we

have referred, are for six hours, places, in order that, by the action of fire,
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