In this painting, to which the final touches were added by the great Yuan-dynasty painter Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), a mallard approaches the water amid luxuriant foliage. Calligraphy added by Qiu Ying (d. 1552) of the Ming dynasty reads: "In olden times someone bought a speaking duck for a thousand ounces of gold; this duck cannot speak, but it is worth no less."
此幅有元朝大畫家趙孟俯為之潤色的圖裡，一溪鳧臨水，岸綻芙蓉，上有明朝仇英提的「昔人有以千金換能言鴨者，此雖不能言，亦非千金勿輕與。」