Some were designed based on drawings provided by European painters, featuring typical Western patterns, such as porcelains based on copper-etching prints, porcelains with badge patterns ordered by European courts, armies or noblemen, porcelains narrating Greek myths, expressing religious arts and depicting Western figures, and porcelains portraying foreign business ships and trade companies hanging various national flags in the port of Guangzhou. All these designs not only reflect trade prosperity but also betray cultural integration between China and Europe at that time.
Export-oriented porcelains of the Qing Dynasty are now still favorites of many European collectors. In 2006, a famille-rose carp-shaped soup bowl made during the reign of Emperor Qianlong was sold with the price of GBP624,000 in Christie's London. Due to continued appreciation of Qing-Dynasty official-kiln porcelains, export-oriented porcelains of the Qing Dynasty attracted increasing attentions for its special artistic values and investment potential. As many investors know little about this type of porcelain, its collection price remains rather lower than porcelains of the similar period and genres.
Editor: Li Jing
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