A SMALL RARE CHINESE QINGBAI 'MANDARIN DUCK' MARRIAGE DISH

YUAN DYNASTY

Decorated with a thin pale blue glaze, the shallow body rising to an unglazed rim, the convex centre moulded with a pair of swimming ducks contained within a key fret band, with paper labels for the J Drew collection, no.271, and the Mary & Peter White Collection, no.3051 to the slightly concave base, 14.5cm.

Provenance: from the collection of John Drew; and later the collection of Mary and Peter White.

John Drew (1933-2006) was educated at Queen's College Oxford and spent much of his life working in Africa as an archivist. He was a collector of Chinese ceramics and owned pieces dating from the Neolithic period to the 18th century.