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Chinese Kangxi blue-on-white porcelain teapot lid, top missing, rare provenance.

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Chinese Kangxi blue-on-white porcelain teapot lid, top missing, rare provenance.
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Chinese Kangxi blue-on-white porcelain teapot lid, top missing, rare provenance. 31.7 grams, 2" in diameter. Cute little lid, round and intact except for the top knob, decorated with blue flowers in a style familiar to those who collect porcelains from the Spanish 1715 and 1733 Fleets, rare from this Dutch wreck, a homebound East Indiaman sunk with a cargo of pepper and porcelains, rare provenance. With original certificate from the salvagers. Recovered from: Bennebroek, sunk in 1713 off South Africa.