Transporting Chinese Ceramics, 15th Century
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Transporting Chinese Ceramics, 15th Century
This is a fifteenth-century Turkish painting (done in the Chinese style) of Chinese ceramics being transported for trade along the Silk Road. Fine Chinese ceramics were a prized trade good. Merchants from Middle East nations like Turkey acted as middlemen between European and Chinese merchants when trading on the Silk Road.