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AN UNUSUAL FAHUA 'DOUBLE DUCK' WATER POT
- MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL FAHUA 'DOUBLE DUCK' WATER POT
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
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    $8,000 - $15,000

Sale Information

Sale 2339
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
16 - 17 September 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

AN UNUSUAL FAHUA 'DOUBLE DUCK' WATER POT
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
Modeled and glazed in purple, turquoise and yellowish-white as a pair of Mandarin ducks swimming side-by-side with heads turned slightly to the left, both with pierced beaks, their shared hollowed bodies centered by a raised circular mouth rim, the glaze ending above the unglazed base
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) long, wood cover

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Provenance

Alice Hudson, San Francisco.

Exhibited

Selections from the William and Winifred Corbin Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Portland Art Museum, 1 - 29 March 1964, no. 36.

Lot Notes

While conjoined blue and white duck-form vessels of this type are well known, examples in fahua appear to be rare. See a blue and white example of nearly identical size (12.7 cm.), sold in these rooms, 19 March 2009, lot 768.

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