The porcelain pot with the insignia of the Augustinian Order is a rare and fundamental piece in the small group of objects identified as 16th-century Chinese export pottery decorated with coats of arms. Only a very small number of similar pieces are known to exist.

The iconography of the coat of arms of the Order of St. Augustine – a heart pierced by two arrows surmounted by a two-headed eagle – points to a specific commission that was destined for a monastery of that congregation, possibly the Convento de Nossa Senhora da Graça, in Macau.