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The article on the Inter-Asiatic Dutch Porcelain Trade. These products were generally high-class wares, well made and nicely decorated. Although the porcelain trade remained simple because there were only tow parties engaged, the Dutch East India Co. and private individuals. The trade with the Dutch East Indies and the Asian countries was full of competing providers and wares and that the Dutch East India Co. had no monopoly of the trade in porcelain in the East and also the Dutch did not even have a colonial empire in the 17th and 18th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Indonesian archipelago was a trading ground for Chinese, Malayan, Indian, Arab and Western traders who buy and sell in local markets. |
