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GLOSSARY

Batavia

Modern Jakarta, the Dutch East India Company trading center in South East Asia.

Also a brown high temperature porcelain glaze particularly popular with the Dutch and on the Swedish market during the first half of the 18th century i.e. around 1740.

For more on the glaze, see: Batavia brown

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