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18TH-19TH CENTURY
Details
AN UNUSUAL PAINTED ENAMEL 'DUCK AND LOTUS' BOWL
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The bowl is decorated in puce enamel on the exterior with a continuous scene of pairs of mandarin ducks swimming amidst lotus flowers and leaves below a band of blue-enameled five-clawed dragons at the rim. The center is similarly decorated in puce with two ducks and lotus, below a band of lança-type characters at the rim. The base has the four-character mark Lü wu jiu an (‘The Studio of No Wrongful Conduct').
6 in. (15.4 cm.) diam.
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The bowl is decorated in puce enamel on the exterior with a continuous scene of pairs of mandarin ducks swimming amidst lotus flowers and leaves below a band of blue-enameled five-clawed dragons at the rim. The center is similarly decorated in puce with two ducks and lotus, below a band of lança-type characters at the rim. The base has the four-character mark Lü wu jiu an (‘The Studio of No Wrongful Conduct').
6 in. (15.4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Private collection, Belgium, acquired prior to 1930.