Chinese teapot with Dutch touch

This rare Chinese export teapot, cover and stand is painted with the arms and motto of the Dutch Republic and the cypher of the Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie – better known as the Dutch East India Company.

The inscription reads Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt 1728.

The design is copied from one side of a…

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