A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CANDLESTICKS, QIANLONG, CIR...

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£700 - £900

A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CANDLESTICKS,
QIANLONG, CIRCA 1740
清乾隆 粉彩烛台一对 
约1740年
each with a foliate-edged square base and balustrade fluted stem surmounted by a cylindrical ribbed candle holder, painted on the base with eight flowerheads amongst leaves above a turquoise-enamel scrolling band with four further flowerheads beneath the balustrade, painted on each flute with leaves dispersed between prunus flowerheads with a copy of the Marchant exhibition catalogue
18.2cm high

PROVENANCE: Sold by Questa Antichita, Turin, Italy, with label.

EXHIBITION: Included by Marchant in their 90th Anniversary Exhibition of Chinese Export Porcelain, 2015, no. 20, pp. 32/3.

NOTE: An identical pair is illustrated by Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos in The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics, A Collector’s Vision, Volume Two, no. 271, p. 137, where the author notes “The shape of these candlesticks is based on a European silver prototype, probably of English origin, dating to the second quarter of the eighteenth century, when this shape was very popular, judging by the pair in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, identical to these, but made in Oporto in the mid-eighteenth century.” · A related pair is illustrated by A. Varela Santos in Yongzheng, Chinese Export Porcelain, A Private Collection, no. 39, pp. 112/3; another related candlestick of this form is illustrated by George C. Williamson in The Book of Famille Rose, plate XXVIII, where the author dates it to the Yongzheng period.


Marchant: ‘Moving to Brook Street’
To be offered without reserve

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one excellent, one possibly off at the lower join.