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A BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE MANDARIN DUCKS JARLET A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER
Le dynasty, 15th/16th century Le dynasty, 15th/16th century
Of compressed globular form with an upright neck, the shoulder Potted with a flared rim and ovoid body, painted in underglaze blue
mounted with facing duck heads and tails, then colored with with striping and a leaf scroll band, a wider panel with clumps of water
underglaze blue outline forming the feathered bodies and feet grasses separated by opposing chich choe placed above overlapping
separated by water grasses, the slightly concave base left unglazed. lotus lappets rising from the low foot ring, the glaze covering the
3 3/8in (8.7cm) diameter exterior and interior walls with a firing ring visible on the floor of the
deep well, the shallowly recessed base covered with a chocolate
$2,000 - 3,000 brown wash.
4 1/2in (11.5cm) high
4 3/8in (11cm) diameter
Published
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten $1,200 - 1,500
Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 92, no.
31. Published
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten
The duck heads and tails were applied to the walls of this lot after the Thousand Year Continuum,’
compressed body was formed. A number of double mandarin duck Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 1, no. 28.
vessels were offered in Butterfields Treasures from the Hoi An Hoard
sale, 11-13 October 2000, lots 860-97. However the Hoi An Hoard For a blue and white beaker jar and cover of similar shape, size and
group had a hole in the beak of one duck head so that they could decoration, see John Stevenson and John Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics:
function as ewers or water droppers, following Chinese prototypes A Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 360, no. 336 (13cm high).
from the Ming dynasty. For an example dated to the mid-fifteenth
century in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: see He Li, Chinese
Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, 1996, no. 409, pp. 222-223
and discussed on p. 251.

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