The Archive · 1901

Preparing for the Court

A Toingkiangpu, Grand Canal, dispatch to the local mandarins reports the arrival that phew on the 15th instant of a large assortstent of chinaware, consisting of dinner sets, large and small Ho etc, etc, made xt the porcelain Kingtéchen, Kiangsi province. This chia ware, packed in no less than 1,960 large cases, is destined for the use +f the Court returning to Peking by way of K'aiféngfu, capital of Honan, and its destination is the last-named city.

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