清 十八世紀

A comparable pair of cloisonné enamel and gilt-bronze pricket candlesticks in the form of foreign figures, with very similar facial expressions to the current lot, was sold in our New York rooms, 28 March 1996, Lot 137. There are also similar bronze kneeling figures of foreigners, but supporting large cloisonné enamel lobed censers on their backs, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji;gongyi meishu (A Complete Collection of Chinese Art; Arts and Crafts), vol. 10, 'Gold, Silver, Glass and Enamelware', Beijing, 1987, p. 170, pl. 310. Compare also, the pair of standing figures holding a rectangular jardinière, illustrated by Michel Beurdeley, The Chinese Collector through the Centuries, Vermont and Tokyo, 1966, p.163, fig.88