Lot 147
147
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A RARE YUAN BLUE AND WHITE DISH, well painted in the centre with a duck and drake swimming amongst lotus and waterweeds, the deep well with a continuous meander of lotus flowers and foliage, surrounded by a classic-scroll band around the foliate rim, the reverse with lotus-petal panels, the foot rim obliquely cut and the base unglazed (glaze area polished, small areas of blue retouched),

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A RARE YUAN BLUE AND WHITE DISH, well painted in the centre with a duck and drake swimming amongst lotus and waterweeds, the deep well with a continuous meander of lotus flowers and foliage, surrounded by a classic-scroll band around the foliate rim, the reverse with lotus-petal panels, the foot rim obliquely cut and the base unglazed (glaze area polished, small areas of blue retouched),

mid 14th Century
35.2cm. diam.

Lot Essay

See J. Rawson, Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon, op. cit., fig.152 for a smaller 'twin-duck' dish which is also illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no.135; the larger examples, illustrated by J. Alexander Pope, op.cit., pl.7, no.29.38.; and by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.II, no.637, p.19. "Twinned" designs of this kind demonstrated both the continuation onto the earliest blue and white of twinned animals and birds, survivors of Tang and Liao silver and gold designs; and also the extent to which early painters at Jingdezhen looked to establish symmetrical and elaborate designs, before coming to terms with the freedom offered by the white surface of the vessel

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