Model animal
Category
Ceramics
Date
1750
Materials
ceramic, ormolu
Measurements
350 mm (H)
Place of origin
Vincennes
Order this imageCollection
Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440414.1
Summary
[Destroyed in the fire of 2015] One of a pair of Japanese Arita carp leaping upwards from rocky waterfall bases, each mounted on Louis XV ormolu three-branch candelabrum, the branches set with Vincennes flowers and the plinths with melon feet. Vincennes Flowers c. 1750, Carp c. 1700
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1968 by Mrs Hannah Gubbay