Lot 124
124
A RARE "MONKEYS ON A TREE" CANDLESTICK
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF IRA AND NANCY KOGER
A RARE "MONKEYS ON A TREE" CANDLESTICK

QIANLONG PERIOD

Details
A RARE "MONKEYS ON A TREE" CANDLESTICK
QIANLONG PERIOD
The knarled hollow tree trunk enamelled in purple, black, blue-green, white and blue, one monkey clambering to the top and the other looking up from below, their coats in gilt and sepia with black markings
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With J.A. Lloyd Hyde and Amos W. Shepard, 1966
The collection of Rafi and Mildred Mottahedeh
SSsS

Lot Essay

The pair of sticks, modelled in mirror image, was in the Mottahedeh collection and illustrated by Howard & Ayers (op. cit.) p. 595, where the authors suggest that they may have been after a Derby prototype where the animals are a dog below watching a cat in the tree.

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