1. Luxury Goods and Global Economic History 1600-1900 Maxine Berg STOREP CONFERENCE GAETA 31 May-2 June, 2013

4. Aina Mahal Palace, Bhuj

5. To Asian Export Ware

6. Mochi Cotton, Silk Embroidery of Gujarat, c. 1700, V&A IS: 15-1953 Painted and Dyed Cotton Hanging, Coromandel Coast for the Western Market, late 17 th or early 18 th C., V&A IS156-153.

11. Order list send by the Dutch East India Company to Batavia in 1698 (Nationaal Archief, VOC, The Hague) archief)

12. Sales Catalogue from the Swedish East India Comany (the cargo of Ulrica Elenora) printed 1735, Gothenburg (Rigsarkivet, Copenhagen, Vestindisk- guineisk)

13. VOCEIC 1670-80232131 1690-1700235 80 1710-20311127 1730-40375154 1750-60291191 1770-80290229 1780-90297292 1790-95118177 Source: E.S.Gaastra and J.R. Bruijn, ‘ The Dutch East India Company ’ s Shipping 1602-1795 in Comparative Perspective ’, in Gaastra and Bruijn, Ships, Sailors and Spices, pp. 177-208, Table 7.2, p. 182 Numbers of ships sent to Asia by the VOC, EIC and the French Company 1670-1790 VOCEICFrench 1670-80232131 30 1690-1700235 80 36 1710-20311127 41 1730-40375154124 1750-60291191135 1770-80290229194 1780-90297292303 1790-95118177196 Source: E.S.Gaastra and J.R. Bruijn, ‘The Dutch East India Company’s Shipping 1602-1795 in Comparative Perspective’, in Gaastra and Bruijn, Ships, Sailors and Spices, pp. 177-208, Table 7.2, p. 182 Numbers of ships sent to Asia by the VOC and the EIC 1670-1790

14. Exports by Foreign Ships at Canton, 1764 Tea(piculs) Porcelain(piculs) 14 English53,000 ---- (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 1635-1834, Vols. 1-V (Oxford, 1929), Vol. V, pp. 113-114, 121-2. *370 chests of private trade only.

15. 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 57.4 71.9 22.4151.732.3 Asia24.2 8.6 20.0 52.811.2 Total151.1 171.1 147.4 Source: Jan de Vries: ‘The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World’, Economic History Review, 63 (2010), p.728.

16. Smugglers at work A sloop with Dutchmen and their Goods, China c.1725-50. Ivory, I, 16 cm. Rijksmuseum, INV. NO. NG- 1994-12

17. Portrait of a Cacica, 1757, Museo Franz Mayer

20. R Rana Plaza, Savar near Dhaka 24 April, 2013