A carved 'Ding' 'Lotus Pond' bowl. Song Dynasty - Photo Sotheby's the shallow rounded sides divided into six lobes and raised on a short foot, freely carved to the interior with a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a pond with waterweeds, all encircled...

Dish, painted in underglaze blue with mandarin ducks in a lotus pond, China, Yuan dynasty, 14th century. Diameter: 15.9 cm. C.189-1931. © V&A Images. Porcelain dish with lobed rim. Painted in underglaze blue on the inside with a pair of mandarin ducks...

Jar with blue-and-white decoration of ducks in lotus pond. Chinese, Ming dynasty, Wanli period, 1572–1620. Porcelain. Height: 30.5 cm Diameter of Foot: 18.5 cm Diameter of Rim: 12 cm Diameter (max.): 27 cm. John Gardner Coolidge Collection. 46.540 © 2012...

Large bowl with underglaze blue decoration of lotus pond. Ming dynasty, Zhengde reign (1506-1521) © National Palace Museum

A celadon jade 'lotus pond' brushwasher carved in the form of a large lotus leaf curling upward to form the shallow vessel, supported on the meandering stem below, smaller stems and tendrils sprouting upward with smaller leaves and lotus pods, supporting...