Microstructures of global trade
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Simonis, Ruth Sonja: Microstructures of global trade: Porcelain acquisitions through private trade networks for Augustus the Strong, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2020. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.499

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Published 23.04.2020.

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Ruth Sonja Simonis

Microstructures of global trade

Porcelain acquisitions through private trade networks for Augustus the Strong

In 1716, Italian officer Peter Robert Taparelli Count of Lagnasco was sent to The Hague by the Saxon-Polish Elector-King Augustus the Strong to purchase East Asian porcelain. The correspondence surrounding this undertaking is a thorough account of the trading situation in the Netherlands. The transcribed letters illustrate the availability of Asian goods, the competition among buyers, prices and trade networks, as well as the objects that were bought for the king. The publication examines the importance of individual merchants and their role in supplying the Saxon court with East Asian luxury goods.

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Titelei
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
The Essay
Introduction
The history of presenting porcelain in royal palaces
From the Kunstkammer to the Dutch Palace
The Dutch East India Company
His Majesty’s agent
Organisational issues
First acquisition 1716–1717: Egidius van den Bempden
Second acquisition 1717–1718: Madame and Monsieur St. Martin
Transport of goods from the Netherlands to Dresden
Recording the acquisitions in the Palace Inventory
Possible identification of porcelain from Holland
Augustus the Strong’s personal purchase plans
Conclusion
Notes
Transcriptions
Foreword
Letters
Dated Specifications
Undated Specifications
Register of persons
Abbreviations
Bibliography