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A MING BLUE AND WHITE 'TWIN DUCKS' WATERPOT AND COVER

16TH CENTURY

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A MING BLUE AND WHITE 'TWIN DUCKS' WATERPOT AND COVER
16th century
Moulded as a pair of swimming mandarin ducks, their heads inclined towards each other, the bodies in rounded shapes and painted with swirling feathers, the domed cover with a foliate rim, heads restored
4¾in. (12cm.) long

Lot Essay

Cf. the similar 'twin ducks' jar illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Porslinet fran Kina, pl.73 (top left); and another, without cover, illustrated by R.-Y. Lefebvre d'Argencé, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, p.110, pl.L (D).
See the related Annamese jar, the only one of its type, illustrated by W.Willetts, Ceramic Art of Southeast Asia, 1971, no.85, and subsequently in Straits Times Annual, 1981, pp.57-8, and exhibited by the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, in Vietnamese Ceramics, Catalogue, no.103, which was sold in these Rooms, 7 December 1984, lot 76

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