Punch bowl with Swedish banknote, c. 1762, 5 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. ( x cm), Porcelain, China, 18th century, From the 1730s to the mid 1800s, Sweden's East India Company regularly left Gothenburg bound for Canton where, after nearly a year at sea, they purchased silks, tea, spices, and porcelain. Wealthy Swedish consumers were among the first in Europe to order porcelain customized with coats of arms, portraits, or Scandinavian landscapes. Sources for these decorations were sent to China in the forms of drawings, prints, bookplates

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