CHINESE AND JAPANESE CERAMICS
A PAIR OF ASSEMBLED GILTMETAL AND CHINESE PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS modelled as a boy and girl wearing long robes, the boy painted in a famille verte palette, wearing a patterned robe and holding a vase, the girl painted in a famille rose palette, wearing a flowered robe tied with a blue sash and with a blue ribbon in her hair, holding a persimmon flower, each standing on two inverted Arita saucer dishes painted with iron-red and blue flowers, the heads mounted with chased giltmetal nozzles in the form of hats with curling brims, the mounted bases applied with masks, (one has part of head lacking at back, cracked at front, chip to the other head, various slight damages), 19th Century
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A PAIR OF ASSEMBLED GILTMETAL AND CHINESE PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS modelled as a boy and girl wearing long robes, the boy painted in a famille verte palette, wearing a patterned robe and holding a vase, the girl painted in a famille rose palette, wearing a flowered robe tied with a blue sash and with a blue ribbon in her hair, holding a persimmon flower, each standing on two inverted Arita saucer dishes painted with iron-red and blue flowers, the heads mounted with chased giltmetal nozzles in the form of hats with curling brims, the mounted bases applied with masks, (one has part of head lacking at back, cracked at front, chip to the other head, various slight damages), 19th Century
10½in. (26.5cm.) high
10½in. (26.5cm.) high