A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SMALL PRICKET CANDLESTICK

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SMALL PRICKET CANDLESTICK
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Well painted with simulated 'heaping and piling' with a band of waves to the outer edge of the drip-pan enclosing a band of flower-heads and radiating trefoils issuing from the centre, connected by a baluster stem to the smaller dish pencilled with an aperture to receive the candle, the base with a band of classic scrolls to the outer rims encircling various borders of composite scroll
5 1/4in. (13.4cm.) high

Provenance

S. C. Coles

Literature

Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. 94, no. 2

Exhibited

O.C.S. Exhibition of Blue and White Porcelain, London, 1954, no. 310

Lot Essay

Another candlestick of this pattern with a Qianlong mark, formerly in the Dr. Ip Yee collection and the Goldschmidt collection was exhibited at the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and related Underglaze Red, City Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1975, Catalogue no. 110 and sold in Hong Kong, 19 November, 1984 and again 13 November 1990.

Geng Baochang also illustrates this cruciform mark in Ming Qing Ciqi jianding, Qingdai Bufen, p. 182, fig. 234 centre right, and suggests it was used in the mid or late Qianlong period.

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