Paire de canards blancs Chine, Dynastie Qing, XVIIIème siècle

chacun finement modelé debout sur un promontoire rocheux, le plumage blanc simulé par une glaçure finement craquelée, le visage expressif, le bec, les palmes et le contour des yeux laissés sans glaçure, l'oxyde du biscuit leur donnant un ton orangé

There is a very minuscule chip to one of the upper beaks of the duck. Otherwise in very good condition.
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Une paire similaire au plumage blanc de la collection Schoenlicht, datée du règne de Yongzheng, est illustrée dans Visser, Asiatic Art in Private collections of Belgium and Holland pl.96 no.189. Vendue dans nos salles à Londres 13, Decembre 1955, lot 153 (£1,500). Une autre paire, au plumage coloré, dans le catalogue de la collection Morgan au Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrée dans Bushell et Laffan, p.66 plate 34