A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

THE CHINESE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY, THE PORCELAIN FLOWERS FRENCH AND 18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE ORMOLU MID- 18TH CENTURY AND PROBABLY GERMAN

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
The Chinese porcelain 18th Century, the porcelain flowers French and 18th Century and later, the ormolu mid- 18th Century and probably German
Formed as recumbent stags, lying down, glazed in brown with white spots, the green-painted bronze branches mounted with French soft-paste porcelain flowers springing from their backs, each on an ormolu base cast with scrolls, the stags with pierced holes
7½ in. (19cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 17 May 1968, lot 43.

Lot Essay

This pair of candelabra is extremely similar in the sideways positioning of the stags and candlebranches to a pair of German ormolu-mounted Meissen porcelain stag-form candelabra in the Residenz, Munich, illustrated in E. Bierende, 'Glanz und Pracht; Ostasiatisches Porzellan in den Reichen Zimmern der Münchner Residenz', Weltkunst, July 2002, p. 1022.

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