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Cataloguer / Sale Coordinator, Chinese Works of Art

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清乾隆 仿古白玉鴨擺飾
Marigold, known as "chrysanthemum of ten thousand years of longevity" (wanshou ju), often appears in artwork from the Qing dynasty. The naturalistic flowering branches and the gnarled tree trunk underneath the duck present a contrast to the stylized rendering of the duck - of rigid silhouette and design elements taken from archaic bronze vessels and jade carvings.
Compare the jade duck in very similar archaistic style from the Brundage Collection, illustrated by Knight, Li and Tse Bartholomew, Later Chinese Jades: Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 2007, p. 262, no. 279, described as 19th century.
For a similar carving of a duck looking over its back and holding a lotus stem in its beak, see Christie's New York, 21-22 September 1995, lot 374.