A WHITE AND BROWN JADE MANDARIN DUCK

细节

A WHITE AND BROWN JADE MANDARIN DUCK
MING DYNASTY

The duck carved in the round holding a lotus spray in its beak while looking straight ahead, the wings carved and incised with feathers, its two feet tucked under its body, the stone of pale celadon tone with extensive russet brown areas and a smooth polish
2 5/8in. (6.8cm.) long, box

展览

The Asia Society, New York, 1980, Catalogue, no. 84
Pacific Asia Museum, 1986, Catalogue, no. 162
San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
The Dayton Art Institute, 1989, no. 208
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1990-91

拍品专文

In the entry to the Asia House Gallery exhibition Catalogue, no. 84, Watt remarks on the popularity of the Mandarin duck and lotus flower with late Ming jade carvers. Two quite different treatments of the same theme provide interesting contrasts. One is illustrated by d'Argence, Chinese Jades from the Avery Brundage collection, pl. XLV; the other by Nott, Chinese Jade throughout the Ages, pl. LXXIV. In comparison the Godfrey duck has a compact quality and is more naturalistically carved.