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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘MANDARIN DUCK’ EWER
17TH CENTURY
The ewer is made in the shape of two side-by side mandarin ducks, one with head curved back
behind one end of the spotted handle to rest behind the raised neck of its mate. Their necks,
wings and tails are detailed with feathers, and the sides of their bodies are delicately decorated
with lotus plants and water weeds as if they are swimming in a lotus pond above a scroll band
encircling the foot.
7æ in. (19.7 cm.) high, Japanese double wood box
$10,000-15,000
十七世紀 青花荷塘鴛鴦形提壺

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