A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE CANDLE-STICK of baluster shape with saucer-shaped drip-pan, long cilindrical neck and bulbous mouth, painted with a band of flower-sprays, the drip-pan and neck with Buddhistic symbols and flames (rim of drip-pan restored, neck crack, rim fritted), circa 1650 | Christie's

Lot 21

A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE CANDLE-STICK of baluster shape with saucer-shaped drip-pan, long cilindrical neck and bulbous mouth, painted with a band of flower-sprays, the drip-pan and neck with Buddhistic symbols and flames (rim of drip-pan restored, neck crack, rim fritted), circa 1650

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A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE CANDLE-STICK of baluster shape with saucer-shaped drip-pan, long cilindrical neck and bulbous mouth, painted with a band of flower-sprays, the drip-pan and neck with Buddhistic symbols and flames (rim of drip-pan restored, neck crack, rim fritted), circa 1650
28.5cm. high

Lot Essay

For a similar shaped candle-stick cf. D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., plate 38.

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