Chinese trades, Qing dynasty, 1800s. Porcelain makers firing pottery 1, potters at a wheel 2, artists painting plates 3, silk spinner and dressmaker 4, great weighing machine or steelyard 5 and itinerant bookseller 6. Copied from illustrations by Antoine Cardon in Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's La Chine en miniature, 1811. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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