In the entry to the Asia House Gallery exhibition Catalogue, no. 84, Watt remarks on the popularity of the Mandarin duck and lotus flower with late Ming jade carvers. Two quite different treatments of the same theme provide interesting contrasts. One is illustrated by d'Argence, Chinese Jades from the Avery Brundage collection, pl. XLV; the other by Nott, Chinese Jade throughout the Ages, pl. LXXIV. In comparison the Godfrey duck has a compact quality and is more naturalistically carved.