Lot Essay
Pairs of mandarin ducks are associated with conjugal bliss and it is possible that dishes like these may have been presented as wedding gifts.
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Details
A famille rose dish
Yongzheng
Enamelled to the centre with a brace of ducks swimming in a pond below lotus, the everted rim unusually decorated with the Eight Immortals variously with their attributes and standing on fish, crab, shell or unicorn among breaking waves (enamels slightly retouched)
39.2 cm. diam.
Yongzheng
Enamelled to the centre with a brace of ducks swimming in a pond below lotus, the everted rim unusually decorated with the Eight Immortals variously with their attributes and standing on fish, crab, shell or unicorn among breaking waves (enamels slightly retouched)
39.2 cm. diam.