• Dimension: Height: 6 7/8 in (17.5 cm) Width: 1 1/2 in (3.5 cm)
• Estimate From: $1500
• Estimate To: $2500

Chinese. The interior finely enamelled with a central scene of a pair of mandarin ducks swimming beneath a tall cluster of elegantly bending lotus blooms and paddies rising from a lightly rippling pond, the birds with fiery iron-red crests and feathering detailed in apple-green and iron-red turned towards one another, all encircled between a double-circle repeated at the rim, the reverse similarly painted with ducks and flowering lotus below a band of green, aubergine, and yellow five-clawed dragons in pursuit of 'flaming pearls', the base inscribed with a six-character mark. Qing Dynasty period.

敞口，弧壁，圈足。盤心繪鬥彩鴛鴦紋。此盤造型秀麗新穎，鬥彩色彩明快嬌嫩，碗心，外壁分繪姿態各異的鴛鴦，戲水於蓮池之中，畫工精細，頗有意趣。