By examining a wealth of archival materials, this chapter casts further light on the networks linking Florence, Livorno and the British, while at the same time highlighting how, after the Medici, the former courtiers turned into successful entrepreneurs, paving the way for the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century development of fondachi and warehouses in Livorno. Furthermore, the 1749 Oriental Company established in Livorno by Carlo Ginori with the help of Alexander Drummond, English Consul in Aleppo, and Richard Bourchier, British Governor of Bombay, shows that in the long term, the idea of establishing an independent, Tuscan form of controlling the export of merchandises to the Orient, eventually succeeded.
Ginori Porcelain: Florentine identity and trade with the Levant
Cinzia Maria Sicca
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2020-01-01
Abstract
By examining a wealth of archival materials, this chapter casts further light on the networks linking Florence, Livorno and the British, while at the same time highlighting how, after the Medici, the former courtiers turned into successful entrepreneurs, paving the way for the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century development of fondachi and warehouses in Livorno. Furthermore, the 1749 Oriental Company established in Livorno by Carlo Ginori with the help of Alexander Drummond, English Consul in Aleppo, and Richard Bourchier, British Governor of Bombay, shows that in the long term, the idea of establishing an independent, Tuscan form of controlling the export of merchandises to the Orient, eventually succeeded.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
