A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1740

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN CANDELABRA
Circa 1740
Each as a finch perched on a tree-stump within a niche issuing flowers and two candle-arms, on rocaille scroll ormolu base
10in. (25.4cm) high (2)

Sale room notice

Please note the mounts are 19th Century.

Lot Essay

See Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel, The Irwin Untermeyer Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1958, plate 7, fig. 1 for examples of the birds.