Title
Bowl with design of ducks and lotus
16th century
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- South China bowl with duck and water weed design
- Place where the work was made
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Fujian Province
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China
- Period
- Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Date
- 16th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Dimensions
- 9.5 x 21.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr J. Knox 1981
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 38.1981
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Export ware (Southeast Asia market)
Works in the collection
- Share
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About
Typical of export blue-and-white, this bowl features a boldly drawn design of lotus and ducks. Since they are known to mate for life, pairs of mandarin ducks became a popular auspicious symbol for a happy marriage and appear frequently in the Chinese decorative repertoire.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.137.
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Places
Where the work was made
Fujian Province
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Export Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 137 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Asian Art', pg. 85-103, Sydney, 1981, 91 (illus.). cat.no. 7
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