A DOUCAI 'MANDARIN DUCK' SAUCER-DISH

CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK, CIRCA 1730

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A DOUCAI 'MANDARIN DUCK' SAUCER-DISH
chenghua six-character mark, circa 1730
Delicately painted and enamelled at the interior with a medallion enclosing a mandarin duck in flight above lotus and another swimming in a pond below, the rim with a band enclosing pseudo-Sanskrit characters, the reverse similarly decorated, minor wear to interior
7.7/8 in. (20 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

See an example with related mandarin duck subject of the same period and with the same Chenghua six-character mark, illustrated by A. du Boulay, op.cit., 1984, p.224, fig.5 and sold in these Rooms, 13 December 1976, lot 65.

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