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Lamp Blown Glass Red-crowned Crane

Boshan Colored Glaze Museum

Boshan Colored Glaze Museum
Zibo City, Shandong Province, China

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, cranes were endowed with the cultural connotation of loyalty, integrity and noble morality. The embroidered cranes on the supplementary clothing of the civil servants ranked them as important symbols next to the dragon and phoenix dedicated to the royal families. Therefore, people also called cranes "the First-class Birds". Taoism pursues immortality and regards cranes as a symbol of longevity.

This glazed crane is beautiful in shape, elegant in temperament and lifelike in spirit.

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  • Title: Lamp Blown Glass Red-crowned Crane
Boshan Colored Glaze Museum

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