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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Octagonal covered box decorated with a crab on the lid
- Place of origin
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Hanoi →
Viet Nam
- Year
- 14th century-16th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcellanous ware with underglaze blue decoration and a thick white glaze
- Dimensions
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H7.1cm (overall):
a; 4.5 x 9.5cm; h x diam.
b - Part b; 2.8 x 9.5cm; diam. (irreg.)
- Credit
- Gift of Max and Cynthia Loveday 2011
- Accession number
- 139.2011.a-b
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Crabs were popularly produced on Vietnamese and Chinese export ceramics because they represented fertility. Boxes such as this were made in the Hanoi region during the 14th-16th centuries, and in southern China in the 17th century and later.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, February 2010.
