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Although the setting has been romanticised, the scene does provide some idea as to how porcelain bowls were made. The same process is still being performed in China today.\r\n\r\nWatercolours of this type are sometimes referred to as 'Chinese export paintings', since they were sold mainly to Europeans visiting China. The Honourable East India Company and other private traders from England travelled to China to buy silk, tea and porcelain. Watercolours depicting these industries were particularly popular with the British.\r\n\r\nChinese artists engaged in the export painting profession did not enjoy a high social status. They did not sign their works, while accounts in contemporary native history books rarely mention them. 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