A Chinese porcelain doucai 'lotus pond' dish, Kangxi, the interior delicately enamelled with a flying duck and ducks swimming in a lotus pond, inscribed with a band of stylised Shou character beneath the rim, underglaze blue floral seal mark within a double ring to base, 16cm diameter

two areas of fritting to the rim. A very slight chip to the outside of the rim has been carefully ground away. no cracks and no restoration