A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL PRICKET CANDLESTICKS

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each shallow dish finely enamelled on the interior with four yellow-ground ruyi-shaped cartouches enclosing blue chilong, evenly spaced around the central pricket, all amidst floral scrolls on a turquoise ground, the curved sides bordered with peony scrolls repeated on the exterior, and the base decorated with a further floral scroll bearing four lotus blooms encircling a gilt-bronze roundel incised with a Qianlong four-character mark
4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) diam., box (2)

Lot Essay

An identical joss-stick holder, with a central aperture for a prong instead of a pricket, and with the same Qianlong mark, is illustrated by C. Brown, Chinese Cloisonné, The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pl. 51.

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