Antique Ducks

This example is from the second edition of The Birds of America and features two King Ducks positioned in a dramatic landscape, with a rocky backdrop and vivid coloration.

One standout piece portrays a pair of ducks on tranquil waters, creating a serene contrast to the land-based settings of the others.

The embroidered mandarin ducks symbolize marital harmony and fidelity. It is a framed piece made from a pillowcase flap.

Description Superb Chinese porcelain dish with a nice Lotus Pond scene with ducks. Bleu de Hue porcelain. The base with beautiful mark: Reading '锦堂发记' for 'Jin Tang Fa Ji'.

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a fuchsia field surrounded by a thin gold and wide turquoise border, and overlaid with lotus flowers and leaves in one corner, ducks i...

In the March 27, 1941 Santa Cruz Sentinel News Lemos reminisced, "Them were the days when the Boardwalk was only twelve feet long and when business got slow I picked up my shotgun an...

Either end of the napkin ring is embellished with embossed and applied decoration reproducing the fine details of the ducks plumage and anatomical features. The duck’s head is fur...

A very nicely decorated saucer dish with flowers and ducks. Kangxi period. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region of Origin: China Emperor: Kangxi (1661-1722) ...

An English thatched mill with the mill race and ducks. Signed and Dated T Whittle 1881, Thomas Whittle 1865-1892 is a well-listed and popular artist of the 19th century, who painted...

The Northern Pintail is one of the most elegant species among the dabbling ducks of Europe and the northern hemisphere. Known for its slender body, long neck, and refined profile, th...

The male Steller’s Eider is one of the most visually distinctive sea ducks, characterized by its dramatic black, white, and warm buff coloration, along with the unmistakable pale hea...

The feature setting has been modelled in the form of a duck. The ducks body is embellished with eleven pavé set Dutch cut diamonds, totalling 0.21cts.

What makes this example very rare is the panel scenes of Birds/ Ducks/ Flying Geese. In 35 years of dealing in Antique Lighting I have never seen the Baccarat Lanterns with this motif.

This elegant Japanese Silver and Shakudo vase with multi-metal decoration of two ducks swimming among water reeds. With Meiji period marks for Jungin, .950 silver, and the swallow ma...

Cornish farmstead with women feeding the ducks. Signed & dated (1906) lower left. Presented in a silver-effect frame with card mount.

In the March 27, 1941 Santa Cruz Sentinel News Lemos reminisced, "Them were the days when the Boardwalk was only twelve feet long and when business got slow I picked up my shotgun an...

In this Art Nouveau turn-of-the-century poster, he paints a car driving in the countryside, surprising an unsuspecting couple and a pair of ducks who don't know what to do next. The ...

Antique Eider Duck Lithographs Set of 4, Somateria mollissima, Sweden 1929 Description: This elegant set of four Scandinavian ornithological lithographs illustrates the Common Eider...

These waves directly affect the ducks, whose bodies tilt and respond to the current, and suggests motion beyond the frame.

In the foreground a small ornamental boat glides across the calm water, while ducks swim nearby, adding movement and life to the tranquil scene.

Lanoux is a listed artist, recorded as a nineteenth-century French painter of lakes, rivers, dogs, and ducks.

The interior lid and base reveal further decoration, finely engraved with wisteria, a bird, ducks, and iris flowers, continuing the naturalistic themes across the piece.

There are close affinities with our canvas in several of his paintings also centred on ducks, but especially on other birds such as the swan or the partridge, with their wings stretc...

The panels depict a blossoming cherry tree extending beyond a woven fence and over a pond with ducks, mallards, and cranes. Reeds line the pond’s edge, all set against a gold backgro...

In the foreground a small ornamental boat moves across the calm pond while ducks swim on the surface. Figures stroll along the terraces and garden paths, suggesting the refined and l...

When converted to its lower position, the piece transforms into a wheeled play seat with a wide table surface depicting a dog swimming after ducks; the table is further accented with...

He became a member of the Royal Society of Artists (1841 – 1852) He also painted many charming small-scale studies of rabbits, ducks, goats, birds and other animals. He held the app...

Two-panel screen painted on paper, depicting a naturalistic scene with two pintail ducks in flight over a pond. In the foreground, lotus plants and peonies emerge from leaves and ste...

Octagonal in shape, each plate illustrates a fable by La Fontaine such as The Crayfish and His Daughter ; The Rooster, the Cat and the Little Mouse ; The Stag Seeing Himself in the W...

In the background, a gentle stream with ducks and a distant hilltop village adds a sense of depth and serenity.

Subtle greens and browns dominate the landscape, harmonizing with the patterned plumage of the ducks and the warm tones of the ducklings. The technique allows for smooth color transi...

In the world of Asian medicine, mandarin ducks are symbolic of relationship healing purposes and recognized as symbols of long-lasting relationships.

Featuring motifs such as cranes and pine trees for longevity, paired ducks for marital harmony, and peonies for wealth and beauty, each design conveys heartfelt wishes for health, ha...

With their gently stylized forms and expressive, contrasting gestures, this pair of early 20th-century cast iron ducks embodies the quiet charm of vernacular folk design.

Meiji period The central part of the plate is decorated with a picture of ducks by the river among the reeds. The rims are garnished with ornaments.

Each panel with a variety of farm birds, ducks and other fowl. Indistinctly signed.

This remarkable piece features a beautifully hand-painted scene depicting two colorful ducks gracefully swimming in serene water. The rich hues of the ducks are masterfully rendered,...

Painted circa 1850 the composition is of three carthorses watering in a small pool while their owner takes a rest in the cart. Some ducks are on the bank nearby and thatched dwelling...

He mostly painted English cottage landscapes often with ducks, sheep, and young people. He used a ward palette of color and this gave his paintings a very desirable warm glow.

Others are working on top of a haystack, all in a charming landscape with swans and a ducks in the stream below. Presented in an exceptional carved and gilt deep wood frame.

Large canvas featuring roosters, hawk and ducks in a landscape. signed indistinctly. Unframed.

Antique print titled 'Die chinesische Ente - Die Wammenente'. This print shows two ducks (one of them is most likely a Mandarin Duck).

Antique Hand-Coloured Print of Female Merganser – Mergus Minutus, 1770–1829 This elegant hand-coloured engraving shows a female merganser (Mergus minutus), a member of the merganser...

Sharing with you this Large and Fabulous Japanese Charger in blue and white colors. Central scene of 2 ducks/gooses in a landscape. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Po...

The panel is enameled with a polychrome image of naturalistic ducks in a landscape with a half moon view on blue ground made in the Cloisonne technique.

The scene shows elegantly dressed figures walking along the tree-lined path, groups of people gathering near the water’s edge, and ducks swimming in the Hofvijver. The architectural ...

A beautiful and unsual Japanese Porcelain vase, decorated with flying ducks in a landscape on blue ground, floral decorative band at the top, marked with a nine character mark on the...

Relief cartouches on each urn depict serene Japanese landscapes—one with ducks swimming beneath a tree, the other with blossoming branches—adding poetic charm to the design.

The surface of this antique sugar bowl is embellished with an impressive embossed and chased farmyard scene depicting ducks in a pond and a fox chasing a goose, all framed with trees...

This print depicts a male domestic duck (Dutch: tamme eend). Domestic ducks are ducks that are raised for meat, eggs and down.

This early 20th-century, hand-woven Chinese Deco rug has a royal-blue field with a variety of delicate polychrome floral sprays at one end, together with butterflies and birds, at th...

Superb quality French antique Victorian hand painted porcelain jardiniere having a superb quality French antique Victorian hand painted porcelain jardiniere to the front a landscape ...

A mother and child feed gees and ducks on the cobblestones before vast countryside.

A lovely scene depicting a figure on a boat on a meandering stream, amid fields and rushes, with the spire of the village church in the background and ducks in the foreground. The wh...

Wonderful mid 19th Century painting of a stable's interior with two horses, stable hand, two spaniels, a rooster and ducks from a follower of John Frederick Herring, Sr.

The lid has two mandarin ducks swimming. The phoenix is considered to reign over all other birds in the mythology of the Chinese cultural sphere.

Wonderfully decorated with a band of ducks and other birds amongst floral motifs around the rim.

On many occasions, they also struck at a chicken, grown fowls and ducks, which they would tear up and devour. Once a cat which was asleep in the sunshine, on the wooden steps of the ...

When placed beside each other, what remains of the finely-painted decoration comes together to form a single scene of a tree branching out over a pond with swimming ducks and birds i...

A bold early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a wonderful central indigo field surrounded by an inner thin gold strip, a wide fuchsia stripe and a thin outer indigo stripe bord...