A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PRICKET CANDLESTICK

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A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE PRICKET CANDLESTICK
ENCIRCLED QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely painted in brilliant tones of cobalt with simulated 'heaping and piling', the base decorated with concentric bands of floral scrolls and borders of florettes divided by raised ribs and single-line borders upwards toward the knotted stem supporting the wide drip-pan with a wave encircling the rim, enclosing another of floral sprigs and a trefoil band, encircling the baluster stem with stylized pomegranates, the smaller top drip-pan with a further band of trefoils around the circular aperture to receive the candle
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Dr. Ip Yee, sold in Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 202.
The Goldschmidt Collection.

Exhibited

Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and related Underglaze Red, O.C.S. Special Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1975, Catalogue, no. 110.

Lot Essay

Two similarly decorated Qianlong candlesticks are published, one from the Coles Collection, included in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Blue and White Porcelain, London, 1954, Catalogue, no. 310; and another in the Jenyns Collection, illustrated in his volume Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XCIV, fig. 2.

A blue and white Qianlong candlestick with a similar mark in the National Palace Museum with a twenty-character poem inscribed in the centre register is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pls. 23-23b.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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