A PAIR OF IMARI MODELS OF MANDARIN DUCKS
A PAIR OF IMARI MODELS OF MANDARIN DUCKS
A PAIR OF IMARI MODELS OF MANDARIN DUCKS
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A PAIR OF IMARI MODELS OF MANDARIN DUCKS

JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF IMARI MODELS OF MANDARIN DUCKS
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Each modelled with its beak open and webbed feet propelling them as if through water, the feathers finely detailed in overglaze iron-red, brown and green enamels and gilt
10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.) long
Provenance
Acquired from the Parisian trade in 2012.

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Amelia Walker
Amelia Walker Director, Specialist Head of Private & Iconic Collections

Lot Essay


The present lot may be compared to a similar model illustrated in Treasures of Asian Art, The Asia Society's Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller Collection, Denise Leidy, New York, 1994, fig. 264; and another in the Kakiemon palette in Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, J. Ayers, O. Impey, J. V. G. Mallet (eds), Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1990, cat. no. 171, p. 185.

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