18TH CENTURY

These candlesticks compare with a pair bearing a date corresponding to 1740 illustrated by Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, The Ohlmer'sche Sammlung im Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, Mainz, 1981, pl. 52; and another, with a date corresponding to 1741 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, pl. 45. See also a pair of almost identical candlesticks sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 1999, lot 299.