Drinking bowl and lower shell with Chinese merchant shipping scene
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Drinking bowl and lower shell, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany around 1725, Porcelain.
Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
The plate shows a meeting of two merchants: a Dutchman and a Chinese. Sailing ships are anchored in the bay. Junks deliver the much sought-after goods: tea, silk and porcelain. They pay with silver or gold. The rock in the background does not yet know that it will one day be called Hong Kong.