JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY

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A KAKIEMON MODEL OF A COCKEREL
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY
Modelled with head turned to the side, mouth open, with expressive facial features picked out in black, the feathers finely detailed and colourful tail plumage decorated in shades of red, turquoise, blue, yellow and black
8 ½ in. (21 cm.) high; 7 in. (17.6 cm.) wide; 5 ¼ in. (14.3 cm.) deep

Provenance

Collection Edouard Larcade (1871-1945), Paris.
Sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 25 May 1951, lot 45 ('Coq en porcelaine emailleé polychrome. XVIII siècle. La tête et le cou emaillés rouge corail, les plumes polychromes, il est représenteé la queue dressée').

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Lot Essay

A standing Kakiemon cockerel in The Burghley House Collection, Stamford, is illustrated by J. Ayers, O. Impey, J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, London, OCS, 1990, p. 184, fig. 169; a plainer Arita model of a white cockerel of similar form was sold at Christie's, London, 21 May 2019, lot 23.

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