Brianna (commissions open) ♠🌑🔲💜

Throughout history, various civilizations have used the crab form as a unique source of inspiration, both in everyday items and in mythological and artistic objects. I've put together a compilation of my previous posts, ranging from 18th-century Chinese export porcelain to ancient Peruvian ceramics and ancient Greek coins. Artifact descriptions (left to right): 1) Crab Tureen -- Jingdezhen, China; Chinese export porcelain, 1736--1795. It's currently in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. 2) Crab -- Jugyoku, Japan, 19th century (Edo-Meiji period); hornbill ivory. It's currently in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 3) Figural vessel depicting a land crab -- Colima culture, West Mexico, 100 BC -- AD 250; red-slipped ceramic with black oxide. It's in a private collection and recorded in the sales archives of Binoche et Giquello, Paris. 4) Crab -- Peru, Moche culture, 6th--7th century; possibly gilded copper. It's currently in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 5)Crab-shaped paperweight -- Japan, 1888. It's currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 6) Bowl: Crab -- Peru, Nasca culture, 2nd--4th century; ceramic. It's currently in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 7) Large Anthropomorphic Crab -- Robert Wallace Martin / Martin Brothers, England, 1880; salt-glazed stoneware. It's currently in the collection of The Box, Plymouth. 8) Bottle, Crab Deity -- Peru, Moche culture, 2nd--4th century; ceramic. It's dated between the 2nd and 4th centuries. 9) Silver didrachm depicting a crab -- Akragas (Agrigentum), Sicily; late 6th -- early 5th century BC.

Canadian indigenous artist Roy Thomas (1949-2004): Moose and Wolves, 1977, silkscreen.