Lot 299
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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE CANDLE HOLDERS
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE CANDLE HOLDERS

QIANLONG, CIRCA 1740

Details
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE CANDLE HOLDERS
Qianlong, circa 1740
Each the lower half of a large pricket candlestick, elaborately formed and well painted in the Ming style in rich tones of underglaze blue heightened by a 'heaped and piled' effect with bands of various decorative motifs including leaf tips, foliate scroll ruyi collars, key pattern and classic scroll
14.7/8in. (37.8cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These candle holders relate well to other complete candlesticks of this type, including a pair bearing a date corresponding to 1740 illustrated by Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, The Ohlmer'sche Sammlung im Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, Mainz, 1981, pl. 52; and another, with a date corresponding to 1741 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, pl. 45.