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Anyone here recognizes or have seen before this seal/signature?

I have not seen exactly the same seal, but it reminds me of round coin-shaped seals with dragon design that show on pots (as well as on many « fake » or copies) initially made for export to India in the years 1880-1890. Maybe someone else has more info about this.

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Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:36 am

I have not seen exactly the same seal, but it reminds me of round coin-shaped seals with dragon design that show on pots (as well as on many « fake » or copies) initially made for export to India in the years 1880-1890. Maybe someone else has more info about this.

Chinese pots made specifically for export to India is interesting, as I cannot imagine there having been any worthwhile demand for them in India at any time period.

Sorry, I checked what I initially read on a Chinese website and it seems that I didn’t get it quite right.
It wasn’t about India but export in a general way. I am not a specialist of Yixing teapots’ history, but I read several times about export production of yixing ware. It was obviously a production responding to a demand and targeted Europe (trough the Dutch East India Company), Japan and South East Asian countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore (see: Kuei-hsiang Lo,The Stonewares of Yixing: From the Ming Period to the Present Day, 1986). So why not India....?
I do not have more data about that, but this website presented the fact that Chinese national collection expanded during the years 1880-90’s and that a part of yixing production was dedicated to that special matter. The sites makes a link between the seals representing the shape of a coin (apparently used at that time) and these showing a dragon as well as flowers.
But I am sure that other people here can give complementary information about that.

Back in the day Indies or Indochina referred basically to all SE asia... Perhaps that might be the meaning of "India" here.
In particular a lot of yixing was exported to Thailand.

Thx for the clarifications, makes sense.

I have a teapot with the same mark. I was told it was from 1980/90s. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZYUw8mDhIo ... chemichael

yes, 80s/90s replica