1. Economic History Society Annual Conference 28 – 30 March 2014 New Researchers’ Session II IIC: Business Practices

2. The principal-agent problem revisited:
supercargoes and commanders of the China trade
Meike Fellinger
(University of Warwick)
SEIC catalogue.1742.
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3. Part I: Historiographical background Part II: Case study on Charles Irvine Conclusions

4. Charles Irvine of Drum (1693-1771)
Born and died in Aberdeen
After 1715 Jacobite exile in France
Merchant in Rouen in the 1720s
Entered the Indies Trade via the Ostend Company
Between made six voyages as supercargo for the SEIC
Became major wholesale merchant and tea smuggler

5. Thank you for your attention!
The research for this presentation was generously funded by the European Research Council Advanced Grant Scheme
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6. Swedish East India Company ship Three Crowns 1736/37

7. Private commissions
Model in ivory of a Chinese pleasure barge, mid-eighteenth-century, at Osterley Park. Copyright: NTPL/Dennis Gilbert.

8. Armorial and other custom-made Chinese porcelain, reverse mirror paintings