Image Credits
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum, Teapot, Rochus Jacobsz Hoppesteyn ca. 1680-85
Factory Het Oude Moriaenshooft (Old Moor's Head Factory) Dutch, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/200757, public domain
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Description
Teapots like this one manufactured in the Netherlands would have been imported to New Netherland and likely displayed in homes towards the end of the 17th Century. Tea drinking was becoming fashionable, and given the very cold winters in the Little Ice Age, it must have been a treat!
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