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QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1745 A Chinese tea merchant and a Western trader negotiate the season's deals as Chinese workers pour out tea from baskets and pack it into crates for the voyage back to Europe, other Westerners observing 5 in. (12.7 cm.) diameter
From what must have been a unique tea service commissioned by a Western tea merchant, pieces of which have surface on the market very rarely. A saucer was in the Mottahedeh Collection (see Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 215).
THE CHINA TRADE
Porcelains enameled with scenes that reflect the East West trade itself bring alive the adventures and the human interactions that characterized the China Trade period.