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Objekt 6

Plate

Description

Chinese porcelain painting makes use of a relatively limited set of motifs, although most of these floral or animal motifs have a deeper symbolic content; the duck couple thus stands for marital happiness.

Object description

China, around 1730

Porcelain with onglaze painting

Inv. 1948.722. Bequest Dr. Emanuel Hindermann Birsfelden.

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