A Cantonese candle holder

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A Cantonese candle holder
with flaring bulbous stem, broad drip pan and handle and snuffer mount, painted and gilt with panels of birds and butterflies among fruit and flowersprays and figures on terraces, attached white metal snuffer -- 5½in. (14cms) diam; and a Cantonese rectangular, compartmented comb box and cover similarly decorated -- 7in. (17.8cms) long. (2)

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