A blue and white 'mandarin duck and lotus' dish,

Mark and period of Yongzheng

清雍正 青花蓮池鴛鴦臥足盤 《大清雍正年製》款



finely potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a countersunk base enclosed by an unglazed footring, the interior pa🗹inted with a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a pond amongst large lotus blooms with broad furled leaves and tall aquatic grasses, the exterior with a matching frieze of four ducks swimming across gently rippled water between sprays of lotus, below a band enclosing six dragons and pearls at the rim, the decoration executed in fine outline filled with three graded tones of wash, the base insc🍃ribed with a six-character reign mark within a double circle

17.4 cm