Double Duck Ming Dynasty Water Dropper

Hello Ming Dynasty Pottery Experts!

I believe to have been lucky enough to come a cross a Ming Dynasty Double Duck Water Dropper! It is a spitting image of this one:

https://www.trocadero.com/stores/irfanalya/items/1379236/Ming-dynasty-mandarin-duck-water-dropper

Please do your best to make a liar out of me! haha!

Thank you in advance for your expertise.

 

Well not a liar - but a ducks body with an EMU head?. Me thinks ya got a newer knock off - Tag , your it! Make a liar out of me!



Of course if you get much bigger - LOL!

 

Mandarin ducks, Rayo, not your feathered friends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_duck

 

Well those poor ducks are never gonna know what it is to dig deep into the muck with their bills to find worms!

 

Lucky duck!

 

The beaks on yours & the one on the Trocadero site appear to have closed beaks. Compare to this one sold through Sotheby's:

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.281.html/2015/important-chinese-art-n09393

 

I sent a message to the dealer who has the other matching dropper:

Pigura Asian Art
Kebayoran baru
Jakarta 12170
piguraart@gmail.com

It will be interesting on how they reply.

These water droppers are much rarer than a vase or a plate, methinks?