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Recognize this seal?
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.Elise wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:36 amI 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.
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.
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.
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Michael M.
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I have a teapot with the same mark. I was told it was from 1980/90s. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZYUw8mDhIo ... chemichael
