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4A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN TWIN-BRANCH CANDELABRUM with an adjustable butterfly-shaped green silk shade and leafy branches incorporating the nozzles, the base with a Meissen figure of a putto emblematic of Winter on naturalistic base mounted with tapiers, a lizard and a shell, on gourd feet, the ormolu on the base and the branch struck with a C couronné poinçon, the nozzles drilled

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4A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN TWIN-BRANCH CANDELABRUM with an adjustable butterfly-shaped green silk shade and leafy branches incorporating the nozzles, the base with a Meissen figure of a putto emblematic of Winter on naturalistic base mounted with tapiers, a lizard and a shell, on gourd feet, the ormolu on the base and the branch struck with a C couronné poinçon, the nozzles drilled
14½in. (37cm.) high

拍品专文

The C couronné poinçon was in use between 5 March 1745 and 4 February 1749

Ormolu bases decorated with lizards and shells appear to have been popular at this period and it is possible that they may have been produced in the same atelier. For a further discussion see F. J. B. Watson and G. Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1982, pp.42-43