An amber-glazed pottery 'duck'-form libation cup Tang dynasty

modelled in the form of a plump bird, grasping a wide bowl in its sharp pointed beak forming the spout, its full round body stippled overall and molded with scrolled wings and a peaked curling tail, wood stand (2)

Chinese Ceramics in Chicago Collections, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1982, cat.no. 14, p. 31.