A pair of sancai and blue-glazed pottery figures of mandarin ducks, Tang dynasty | 唐 三彩加藍鴛鴦
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A pair of sancai and blue-glazed pottery figures of mandarin ducks
Tang dynasty
唐 三彩加藍鴛鴦
each standing on an oval base, with the head raised and the wings neatly tucked over the body, covered overall with a green glaze streaked with ochre, one duck with a blue splash to the head
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Heights 17 and 17.5 cm, 6⅝ and 6⅞ in.
Purchased from Ezkenazi, London, 10th November 1986.
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1986年11月10日
For a very similar model of a duck, see Eskenazi, Chinese Ceramics from the Cottle Collection, 28th November - 15th December 1973, no.23; and for another, see the catalogue of The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, 1955, no.68c, pl.4.