A CARP TUREEN AND COVER

FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A CARP TUREEN AND COVER
First half 19th century
Modelled on his side with tail flipping up, each side molded with an eye picked out in black and encircled with blue, his scales in tones of iron-red with gilt details and his fin forming a handle to the cover
12¾in. (32.4cm.) long

Lot Essay

An example in the Copeland collection at the Peabody Essex Museum is illustrated by W.S. Sargent, op. cit., p. 214 where he discusses the symbolism of the carp in both Japan and China and notes that this form was brought back to Europe as early as around 1730 and copied in European ceramics as early as 1755

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