Apart from cargoes of everyday utensils for ordinary Europeans, the Chinese porcelain merchants also supplied a more costly product which the Dutch East India Company was not very interested in, but which is quite fascinating: ware custom-made to special order, known as chine de commande.
除了一般歐洲人日常生活用品的船貨，中國瓷商還提供一種造價極高、東印度公司因此不太感興趣，卻極其引人入勝的特殊訂燒瓷。