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Pair of Small 光緒 Guangxu Duck Saucers
A fine pair of "Ducks" small saucers painted in
the doucai palette, each with rounded sides rising to a hint of a flared
rim. The cavetto decorated with four ducks swimming in a lotus pond
separated by stands of lotus and millet below double blue lines at the rim and
above a band of lappets radiating from the central roundel. In the center
is a roundel of further ducks in a lotus pond encircled by concentric lines. The interior edge also treated with a double line border. On the exteriors
below double blue line borders are three bats in underglaze blue. Upon the
bases in underglaze blue written in kaishu script is the six character
mark and period of 光緒
Guangxu. |