Luxury Goods and Global Economic History Maxine Berg STOREP CONFERENCE GAETA 31 May-2 June, 2013
Aina Mahal Palace, Bhuj
To Asian Export Ware
Mochi Cotton, Silk Embroidery of Gujarat, c. 1700, V&A IS: Painted and Dyed Cotton Hanging, Coromandel Coast for the Western Market, late 17 th or early 18 th C., V&A IS
Order list send by the Dutch East India Company to Batavia in 1698 (Nationaal Archief, VOC, The Hague) archief)
Sales Catalogue from the Swedish East India Comany (the cargo of Ulrica Elenora) printed 1735, Gothenburg (Rigsarkivet, Copenhagen, Vestindisk- guineisk)
VOCEIC Source: E.S.Gaastra and J.R. Bruijn, ‘ The Dutch East India Company ’ s Shipping in Comparative Perspective ’, in Gaastra and Bruijn, Ships, Sailors and Spices, pp , Table 7.2, p. 182 Numbers of ships sent to Asia by the VOC, EIC and the French Company VOCEICFrench Source: E.S.Gaastra and J.R. Bruijn, ‘The Dutch East India Company’s Shipping in Comparative Perspective’, in Gaastra and Bruijn, Ships, Sailors and Spices, pp , Table 7.2, p. 182 Numbers of ships sent to Asia by the VOC and the EIC
Exports by Foreign Ships at Canton, 1764 Tea(piculs) Porcelain(piculs) 14 English53, (370 chests)* 4 Dutch37,0783,326 4 French14,5802,284 2 Danes20, 3571,460 1 Swede11,9581,170 1 picul=133. 1/3 lb. average Source: H.B. Morse, Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China , Vols. 1-V (Oxford, 1929), Vol. V, pp , *370 chests of private trade only.
Total Value of Imports to Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic in the 1770s (millions of guilders) [1] [1] Source of ImportsBritain France NetherlandsTotal% of Total Imports W. Hemisphere Asia Total Source: Jan de Vries: ‘The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World’, Economic History Review, 63 (2010), p.728.
Smugglers at work A sloop with Dutchmen and their Goods, China c Ivory, I, 16 cm. Rijksmuseum, INV. NO. NG
Portrait of a Cacica, 1757, Museo Franz Mayer
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