EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A PAIR OF JAPANESE ARITA MODELS OF LEAPING CARP, LATER MOUNTED AS LAMPS
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Each carp modelled leaping from water with open mouth, decorated in various coloured enamels and gilt; each on 20th century lamp base with a gold silk damask shade, supplied by François-Joseph Graf
The carp: 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high; 26 3⁄8 in. (67 cm.) high, overall

Literature

For a similar example in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, accession no. C.43A-1962, see John Ayers, Oliver Impey, J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces: The fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, (The Oriental Ceramics Society, 1990), cat. no. 178, p. 189.

Special notice

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