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A LARGE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE CARP TUREEN AND COVER

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The colorful fsh’s bright yellow-green head tilts up and its black and

gilt eyes stare directly out. Its fns and tail are shaded yellow-green to

pink and the molded scales are picked out in black. A later porcelain

replacement cover with small fsh handle is decorated to match.

19 in. (48.2 cm.) long (2)

$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE:

The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth.
Christie’s New York, 26 January 2006, lot 39.
The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.

LITERATURE:

Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese
and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, pp. 138-139.

The present carp tureen seems to be from the same molds as the other
examples of the monumental form known: one 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; 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.

清乾隆 外銷粉彩鯉魚式大蓋盌

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