QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760

Details

A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'LADY' CANDLE-HOLDERS
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760
Each modelled holding vases in their opposite hands, wearing floral robes over pleated blue skirts, tied at the waist with a finely-decorated floral outer garment
16 ½ in. (42 cm.) high

Provenance

Baronne Pangaert d'Opdorp, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

An almost identical pair of lady candleholders from the collection of the late Sandra Mann was sold in Christie's New York, 26 January 2006, lot 40; and another similar pair, with differently enamelled robes, from the Sowell Collection, was sold in the same sale room, 26 January 2015, lot 25.

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