Blue-and-white stem bowl with lotus flowers and mandarin ducks, Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368), mid-14th century. Jingdezhen kilns, porcelain, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue; 17.8 cm (height), 18 cm (diameter), at foot 11.5 cm (diameter), 6.8 cm min. (diameter). Bequeathed by Professor A. H. Sayce, 1933. EAX.1386. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford