18th century The two confronted birds depicted recumbent on a lotus leaf with archaistic scrolls on their wings and a long crest feather curled at the tip, one duck with a stem of blossoming lotus trailing from its beak, the stone of chalky white colour with grey markings, wood stand, 8.5cm (3 1/8in) long; together with a pale green and russet jade model of a duck, Ming dynasty, finely modelled with its head turned towards his back, grasping a peach branch in its beak, the wings folded and finely detailed with incised feathers, 5cm (2in) long. (3).