TWO FRENCH ROYAL CANDLESTICKS

CIRCA 1720

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TWO FRENCH ROYAL CANDLESTICKS
Circa 1720
Of European silver form, of slightly varying patterns, one with the arms midway on the knopped standard and the other at its base, both with roundels of fan mon, bands of gilt and iron-red lotus scroll, and still-lifes of fruit, flowers and ribbons in Kakiemon colors
8in. (20.2cm.) high (2)

來源

With Galerie Jacques Kugel, Paris
A private American collection
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 23 October 1992

拍品專文

Apparently representing the two different French royal services ordered for Louis XV and his uncle, the Regent, whose post-mortem 10 March 1724 inventory lists his. Known pieces from these services display a range of extravagant shapes, from shell-handled sauce tureens to triple spice boxes, wine coolers, tripod pots and bidets, and they must have been impressive indeed.
French trading relations with China were on a much smaller scale than the Dutch or English, and wealth was more closely held in French society in the period. Only a handful of French aristocratic families commissioned armorial export porcelain.