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ideal until it was revealed that it was designed in Britain but made in China, evoking worries about the decline of British manufacturing industry. Another example, occurred in 2015 in Taiwan, where clash of culture symbolism occurred between a British minister and the Taipei Mayor, where giving watches or clocks have different symbolic meanings in UK and Chinese cultures, where the former is more positive and latter is more negative.
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wrote that Beaumont had blotted his reputation by "mechanicall tricks" when he left England, by asking for a greater gift of silver plate, receiving two horses and "pictures great and small with jewells", with gifts from English noblemen of his acquaintance. By "mechanical", Chamberlain means conduct
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Diplomatic gifts have the potential to seal international friendships, but also to be rebuffed, to seem mismatched, or to accidentally send the wrong message. Taiwan rejected the People's Republic of China's offer of a panda. A 2012 gift of a "British" table tennis table to President Obama seemed
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as gifts to distribute at the English court. Against the current custom in Antwerp he tried to buy the jewellery on a sale-or-return basis and was flatly refused. Velasco gave jewels to prominent figures in the houseshold of Anne of Denmark who seemed likely to promote the Catholic cause.
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and sash. He presented a crystal and gilt cup to Anne of Denmark during a banquet. King James gave him a vintage service of gilt plate, and Anne of Denmark gave him diamond-set locket with miniature portraits of herself and the king, which cost £1000, with a pearl
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once said "If we can't find money to give the ministers their usual presents ... we who have ever passed with an esteem superior to all other nations shall make ourselves the most contemptible." Similar observations were made by
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Diplomats brought gifts from the monarchs they represented and were typically given presents for themselves when they left, often at an audience ceremony known as "taking leave". A French ambassador at the court of
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gifted intimate portraits of himself to representatives from Italy, Great Britain, the United States, and France as part of treaty negotiations with the West over control of land and trade in China after the
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The Montenegro Minister of Defense and a U.S. Navy officer exchange gifts in 2007 during a reception to mark the first year of Montenegro's independence.
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formal relations should be established. This culture was associated with corruption and bribery, and was essential to maintaining diplomatic relations.
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Tracey Sowerby, 'Negotiating the Royal Image: Portrait Exchanges in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Diplomacy', Helen Hackett,
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Jacoby, D. "Silk economics and cross-cultural artistic interaction: Byzantium, the Muslim World, and the Christian West",
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James A. Baker III, The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989–1992 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993)
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Byzantine Diplomacy: Papers from the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990.
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Byzantine Diplomacy: Papers from the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990.
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Casket with Sinhalese and Christian imagery. A gift from the King of Kotte to the King of Portugal, c. 1557.
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Rachael Poole & Reginald Lane Poole, 'An outline of the history of the De Critz family of painters',
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or feather jewel studded with 75 diamonds, both pieces supplied by a Brussels jeweller Jean Guiset.
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Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts',
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had given to Beaumont and his wife Anne Rabot, the portrait miniatures mentioned by Chamberlain.
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British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in 18th-century Istanbul
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British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807: Commerce and Diplomatic Practice in 18th-century Istanbul
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The Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, Archduchess of Austria, pictured together with her dwarf
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England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade and Naval Relations
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and assessed the value of the lands and palaces granted to her by James VI. The goldsmith
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and the other Danish envoys. Foulis made four gold chains for ambassadors attending the
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Exchequer records give some detail of the gifts given to Beaumont. The goldsmiths
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were paid £459 in October 1606 for "two pictures of gold set with stone" which
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came to Scotland in May 1590 she was accompanied by diplomats who attended her
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Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US-China Relations
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The role of gift giving in establishing diplomatic relations is seen in the
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Gustav Ungerer, 'Juan Pantoja de la Cruz and the Circulation of Gifts',
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criticize the submission of the foreign ambassadors to Ottoman rulers:
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of Francia a mechanical organ intended to indicate the superiority of
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David Cameron's table tennis table gift to Barack Obama made in China
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of Denmark were heavier and more costly than those given to
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A Spanish ambassador involved in the negotiations for the
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During his time in London, in August 1604, Velasco gave
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Gift giving was an important part of the culture of the
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received a gold anchor studded with 39 diamonds, and
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Index

Gift basket diplomacy

Winchester Hoard
Iron Age
diplomat
Byzantines
early Middle Ages
panda diplomacy
Byzantine
Constantine V
Pippin III
Byzantine technology
Ottoman Empire
British-Ottoman relations
James Porter
Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire
Baron Paget
Henry Grenville
Anne of Denmark
coronation
Thomas Foulis
Peder Munk
baptism of Prince Henry
Christian Bernekow
Steen Bille
Adam Crusius
Brunswick
Mecklenberg
James VI and I
Christophe de Harlay, Count of Beaumont

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