Live Auction 6071Japanese Art & Design
A Pair of Arita Models of Carp
Lot 234

A Pair of Arita Models of Carp

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Closed16 May 2012

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GBP 32,450

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A Pair of Arita Models of Carp
Edo Period (late 17th century)
Decorated in iron-red, green, aubergine and black enamels and gilt and underglaze blue, each leaping from water, ormolu mounts (18th century)
Each approx. 34cm. high (2)

Specialist note

Birds, fish and animals were popular in export ceramics at the end of the eighteenth century in France and were often ormolu mounted and they appeared in many auction catalogues, for example, the Gaignat sale, 14th February 1769, which included Deux Carpes de porclaine du Japon.