Chinese export dish decorated with a Dutchman

This rare Chinese export dish offered at Luxur Fine Art Auction (25/20/15% buyer’s premium) in Queens, New York, was painted with a portrait of the theologist Willem Deurhoff (1650-1717).

An obscure figure today, his sometimes-peculiar philosophico-theological writings - and his enthus…

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