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A large Chinese slate brushwasher
in the form of a an open lotus, carved using the pale brown inclusions with crabs, mandarin ducks and a fish among flowering lotus branches and leafy tendrils forming the base, on a fitted wood stand similarly carved -- 8¼.in (21cm) wide, 18th/19th Century.
See Colour Plate 43
in the form of a an open lotus, carved using the pale brown inclusions with crabs, mandarin ducks and a fish among flowering lotus branches and leafy tendrils forming the base, on a fitted wood stand similarly carved -- 8¼.in (21cm) wide, 18th/19th Century.
See Colour Plate 43