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A RARE CRAB CUPSTAND AND CUP
QIANLONG PERIOD, MID-18TH CENTURY
Formed as a lotus leaf raised on a short pedestal foot and
enameled in shaded turquoise with scattered waterweeds and
fowers, applied with a crab into which the notched cup slots, the
cup's reticulated sides decorated with pink lotus blooms and gilt
lotus roundels
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter (2)
$3,000–5,000
Cupstands, a form known in Song ceramics, came to the West
with the custom of hot chocolate drinking. Particularly associated
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with the Hispanic markets and known as mancerinas in Spanish,
cupstands were made in silver as well as porcelain, to hold silver,
coconut shell or porcelain cups. It is rare to fnd a cupstand with
original porcelain cup. For a silver example see H.R. Borrell et al,
The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico, p. 380.

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A PAIR OF LADIES ON HORSEBACK
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each modeled as a colorfully-dressed lady holding a mandolin atop
a spotted horse
8¡ in. (21.3 cm.) high, each (2)
$2,000–3,000

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A SET OF EIGHT IMMORTALS AND SHOULAO 417
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each clothed in colorful robe, holding his attribute
8æ in. (22.2 cm.) high, the tallest (9)
$4,000–6,000

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