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Pair of mother-of-pearl ducks
Late 19th / Early 20th century
H: 2½ in / 6½ cm
W: 4¼ in / 11 cm
Stock Number: 0193a/sum08
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A pair of Chinese wood and mother-of-pearl ducks with ivory bills, eyes and feet. A pair of ducks represent marital happiness in Chinese art. Possibly a wedding gift, covers on the birds’ backs reveal cavities that could have held incense or some other ceremonial substance. Inscribed pearl shell plaques on the ducks’ covers date them to the Qianlong Period (1736-85) and its emperor’s cultured court, although we believe these to have been made in the a late 19th / early 20th century.
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