# Ducks under Reeds

- Date: 1400s
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Overall: 122.5 x 79.4 cm (48 1/4 x 31 1/4 in.)
- Culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Credit line: Gift of Charles L. Freer
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.117)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1915.117/1915.117_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The artist realistically represented that the Mandarin duck is a sexually dimorphic species, meaning males and females differ in appearance.