Each modelled as a carp leaping from waves, their tails turned to the sides and mouths open, decorated in underglaze blue, with their scales and fins highlighted in gilt and red enamelled mouths, the waves decorated in green enamels
9¾ in. (24 cm.) high

H. Woods Wilson Ltd.
Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), then by descent within the family.

For the left carp, see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, (London, 1965), no. 35A.

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Similar examples sold in Christie’s London, 11 November 2016, sale 12020, lots 114 and 115.
For a further example of models of carp, see Christiaan J.A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections (Amsterdam, 2003), no. 358 and 359, p. 284.