Luxury Goods and Global Economic History 1600-1900
Maxine Berg
STOREP CONFERENCE
GAETA 31 May-2 June, 2013
Aina Mahal Palace, Bhuj
To Asian Export Ware
Mochi Cotton, Silk Embroidery of
Gujarat , c. 1700, V&A IS: 15-1953
Painted and Dyed Cotton Hanging,
Coromandel Coast for the Western
Market, late 17th or early 18th C.,
V&A IS156-153.
Order list
send by
the Dutch
East India
Company
to Batavia
in 1698
(Nationaal
Archief,
VOC, The
Hague)
archief)
Sales Catalogue
from the
Swedish East
India Comany
(the cargo of
Ulrica Elenora)
printed 1735,
Gothenburg
(Rigsarkivet,
Copenhagen,
Vestindiskguineisk)
Numbers of ships sent to Asia by the VOC and
the EIC 1670-1790
1670-80
1690-1700
1710-20
1730-40
1750-60
1770-80
1780-90
1790-95
VOC
232
235
311
375
291
290
297
118
EIC
131
80
127
154
191
229
292
177
Source: E.S.Gaastra and J.R. Bruijn, ‘The Dutch East India Company’s Shipping
1602-1795 in Comparative Perspective’, in Gaastra and Bruijn, Ships, Sailors and
Spices, pp. 177-208, Table 7.2, p. 182
Exports by Foreign Ships at Canton, 1764
Tea(piculs) Porcelain(piculs)
14 English
53,000
---(370 chests)*
3,326
4 Dutch
37,078
4 French 14,580
2,284
2 Danes
20, 357
1,460
1 Swede 11,958
1,170
1 picul=133. 1/3 lb. average
Source: H.B. Morse, Chronicles of the East India Company
Trading to China 1635-1834, Vols. 1-V (Oxford, 1929), Vol. V,
pp. 113-114, 121-2.
*370 chests of private trade only.
Total Value of Imports to Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic in the 1770s (millions of guilders)[1]
Source of Imports
Britain
France
Netherlands
W. Hemisphere
Asia
57.4
24.2
71.9
8.6
22.4
20.0
Total
151.1
171.1
147.4
Total
151.7
52.8
% of Total Imports
32.3
11.2
Source: Jan de Vries: ‘The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World’, Economic History
Review, 63 (2010), p.728.
Smugglers at work
A sloop with Dutchmen and their
Goods, China c.1725-50. Ivory, I, 16
cm. Rijksmuseum, INV. NO. NG1994-12
Portrait of a Cacica, 1757, Museo Franz Mayer
R
Rana Plaza, Savar near Dhaka
24 April, 2013