A CHINESE DOUCAI 'MANDARIN DUCK' DISH

SIX CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1723-35

Painted to the centre with a medallion enclosing a pair of Mandarin ducks swimming and flying amidst lotus blooms, the underside similarly decorated with a continuous scene, the base with the reign mark in underglaze blue and a paper label for Bluett London, 17.6cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s, purchased from Bluett's.