A FINE PAIR OF LATE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT BRONZE PRICKET CANDLESTICKS

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A FINE PAIR OF LATE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT BRONZE PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY

The flaring base, lower drip pan interiors and shafts decorated with scrolling lotus in red, yellow, green and deep blue on turquoise ground, the lower-drip pan circumscribed with a band of peonies, the upper-pan and lower base with a border of formal scroll--10 1/4in. (25.9cm.) high (2)

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Cf. a very similar example sold in our London Rooms, 21 April 1986, lot 289. This pattern can also be found on a similar candlestick with Xuande mark in the Pierre Uldry Collection, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lotz in Chinese Cloisonne, fig. 22 as well as one sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 22 March 1993, lot 568

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