A large famille rose 'hermite crab' dish, Qing dynasty, Qianlong (1736-95).
After a European silver model, decorated in famille rose with an eremit crab and a regular crab amidst sea weed. Diameter 35 cm.
Provenance
Property of a collector.
Exhibitions
Compare with a dish with this motif sold at Sothebys, lot 132, 'Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints' 20 January 2024, New York.
Literature
An example of a hermit crab dish is in the RA Collection, illustrated in Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, The RA collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision, London, 2011, vol. I, cat. no. 171.
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