A RARE FAMILLE ROSE CARP TUREEN

QIANLONG PERIOD

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE CARP TUREEN
QIANLONG PERIOD
Modeled en suite with, and possibly from the same molds as, the preceding lot, this fish's head a bright yellow-green with black, gray and gilt eyes set within deep pink patches, the top of the head a mottled medium blue which continues down its back, its fins and tail yellow-green shading to pink and its molded scales picked out in black, a later metal replacement cover decorated to match and with small metal fish knop
19 in. (48.2 cm.) long

Lot Essay

The present carp tureens seem to be from the same molds as the other examples of the monumental form known: that illustrated by S. Roth, Chinese Porcelain Imported by the Swedish East India Company, p. 27, which had been bought for N. Sahlgren (1701-76); another, with the arms of Don Matias de Galvez y Gallardo, Viceroy of New Spain, illustrated by J. Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain, p. 55; the Copeland piece cited in the previous footnote; another offered Sotheby's New York, 23 October 1992, lot 98, and one sold Sotheby's Monaco, 29 February 1992, lot 536. This last example is the only other carp to display much colored enamel.

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