The Decorative Arts of the China Trade Book

Ch. 1	Spoilum - paintings on glass and portraits	34
Ch. 2	The followers of Spoilum, 1800-1825	54
Ch. 3	Lam Qua - 'handsome face-painter'	72
Ch. 4	The port views and ship portraits	106
Ch. 5	Later portraits and photographs	151
Ch. 6	Genre painting and copies of Western art	156
Ch. 7	Watercolours and gouaches	172
Ch. 8	Paintings on glass	203
Ch. 9	The export furniture 1730-1860	220
Ch. 10	Gilt-decorated lacquerware	263
Ch. 11	The carvers and figure modellers	289
Ch. 12	Fans for a Western market	322
Ch. 13	The silversmiths and other metal workers	338
Ch. 14	Silks, embroideries and domestic fabrics	370
Ch. 15	Decorative painted wallpapers to 1850	390
	Dating and identification appendices	405
A	Chinese painters working for the Western market	406
B	Frames and stretchers on Chinese export paintings	408
C	Chinese ports as depicted by China trade painters	410
D	Foreign ports as depicted by China trade painters	420
E	Guide to dating views of Canton	423
F	A panorama of the Pearl River from Canton to Whampoa anchorage	436
G	The trade industries : the manufacture and distribution of porcelain; the growing and processing of tea	438
H	The trial of pirates in the Consoo House, Canton, 1827	442