1765780 Turbanned Dutch VOC merchants smell tea for quality in a Canton (Guangzhou) tea warehouse, c.1770 (gouache on paper) by Chinese School (18th century); 31.3x25 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (add.info.: Part of a group of four gouaches on the production and export of Chinese tea by the VOC around 1750. The Dutch East India trading Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries with an Asian capital at Batavia, now Jakarta, in Java. Trade with China was restricted to Canton.).