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

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04/23/2020

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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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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
U1-v
Table of contents
vi-x
Acknowledgements
vii-viii
The Essay
1
Introduction
2-9
The history of presenting porcelain in royal palaces
10-11
From the Kunstkammer to the Dutch Palace
12-20
The Dutch East India Company
21-27
His Majesty’s agent
28-34
Organisational issues
35-42
First acquisition 1716–1717: Egidius van den Bempden
43-45
Second acquisition 1717–1718: Madame and Monsieur St. Martin
46-51
Transport of goods from the Netherlands to Dresden
52-55
Recording the acquisitions in the Palace Inventory
56-59
Possible identification of porcelain from Holland
60-65
Augustus the Strong’s personal purchase plans
66-68
Conclusion
69-74
Notes
75-92
Transcriptions
95
Foreword
96-101
Letters
102-232
Dated Specifications
233-276
Undated Specifications
277-287
Register of persons
288-290
Abbreviations
291
Bibliography
292-304

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