A PAIR OF LOUIS XV-STYLE GILT-METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV-STYLE GILT-METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS

19TH/20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV-STYLE GILT-METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS
19TH/20TH CENTURY
With an impressed potters’ studio mark to the undersides, reading 'Hu Lian Xing Ji’
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high; 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Compare the pair of figures, possibly the prototype for the current figures, which are in the Copeland Collection, illustrated by William R. Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum,  Salem, 2012, no. 253, pp. 456 – 458, where they are dated circa 1725-1745.

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