Un groupe en porcelaine de Chine polychrome représentant un ancien et un oiseau piscivore, Qianlong/Jiaqing

717

H 18,8 - L 18 cm

 

This depiction refers to an old Chinese saying: in the fight between the sandpiper and the clam, the fisherman has the best of it. This parable came from an ancient Chinese text entitled 'Strategies of the Warring States'.