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5002 | Qianlong Period,Qing Dynasty A RARE WHITE-GLAZED ‘CRAB’ WASHER

A RARE WHITE-GLAZED ‘CRAB’ WASHER

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Size: L11cm

Signed and dated: Qianlong Period,Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 110,000



The brush wiper was naturalistically modeled in a lotus leaf form, with irregular curved sides rising from the flattened feet with nine dot-shaped spur marks, decorated with a crab and weed in the middle of the palette, resembling the meaning of harmony, ‘He Xie’. It was covered overall in a rich white-glaze.

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Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol.4, no.1785