A SUPERB AND RARE SILVERED-METAL 'MANDARIN DUCKS' BOWL TANG DYNASTY
the shallow rounded sides rising from a flat base to a flared rim, the exterior meticulously decorated with a finely chased and engraved design of four pairs of mandarin ducks, divided by leafy lotus sprays issuing from a ring of connected ruyi heads, enclosing a formalized quatrilobed flower head centering the base, all against a very fine circle-punched ground
Diameter 4 1/8 in., 10.3 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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the shallow rounded sides rising from a flat base to a flared rim, the exterior meticulously decorated with a finely chased and engraved design of four pairs of mandarin ducks, divided by leafy lotus sprays issuing from a ring of connected ruyi heads, enclosing a formalized quatrilobed flower head centering the base, all against a very fine circle-punched ground
Diameter 4 1/8 in., 10.3 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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