JAPON, ÉPOQUE EDO, XVIIIÈME SIÈCLE

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PAIRE DE COQS EN PORCELAINE ARITA
JAPON, ÉPOQUE EDO, XVIIIÈME SIÈCLE
Ils sont représentés assis sur une base rocheuse, le bec entrouvert et les ailes ramenées contre le corps. Leur plumage polychrome est rendu par le travail de peinture.
Hauteur : 25,8 cm. (10 1/8 in.)

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A PAIR OF ARITA PORCELAIN COCKERELS
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Pair of rooster and hen are known in several variations. A pair is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Ayers, 1990, cat. 177. Compare also with a cockerel illustrated in Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Fine & Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, Hotei Publishing, 2003, cat. no. 360 and another pair illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese and Japanese works of Art in the collection of her majesty the Queen, London, 2016, ca. nos. 1525 and 1526.

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