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A set of six famille rose crayfish plates, Qing dynasty, Qianlong, 1740-60.
Estimate
8 000 - 10 000 SEK
737 - 922 EUR
842 - 1 050 USD
Hammer price
10 000 SEK
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A set of six famille rose crayfish plates, Qing dynasty, Qianlong, 1740-60.
Octagonal shape, decorated with crab, crayfish and flowers. Diameter 22.5 cm.
Provenance
Property of a private Swedish collector.
Exhibitions
Compare with dishes of this type in the Collection of the British Museum number
Franks.536.+.
Compare a plate of this design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1879. Object Number: 79.2.1041.
More information
Plates of this type were recovered from the Griffin shipwreck. An East Indiaman which sank in the Sulu Seas in the Southern Philippines in 1761, so these can be dated to the 1740-1760's.