A RARE BLUE AND WHITE CANDLESTICK

CIRCA 1780-1800

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE CANDLESTICK
CIRCA 1780-1800
The knopped stem decorated with blue and white flower sprigs and cell patterns and enriched with further famille rose flowers and gilt spearhead, all supported by two spotted hounds, on a conforming rectangular base
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high

Exhibited

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1997.

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Lot Essay

For a nearly identical example of this very rare and charming form see the pair now in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, and illustrated by W.R. Sargent, op. cit., pp. 232-3. Also compare the pair from the Garbisch collection, sold Sotheby's, Pokety Farms, 22 May 1980, lot 433.

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