A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE DUCKS

QIANLONG

Details

A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE DUCKS
QIANLONG
Naturalistically modelled standing astride rockwork and turning to one side, brightly enamelled with yellow beaks and colourful wing and tail feathers over a brown body
6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 13 May 1996, lot 162

Lot Essay

See M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, London, 1987, p. 108, pl. 156 for two similar larger ducks on lotus leaf bases; and the larger pair exhibited in Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires 1969, Porcelanas 'Compaqia de las Indias', Catalogue, no. 41.

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