A LARGE PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN FOURTEEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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A LARGE PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN FOURTEEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA

THE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722), THE MOUNTS THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed10 April 2018

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A LARGE PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN FOURTEEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
THE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722), THE MOUNTS THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each rouleau vase finely decorated with two registers of shaped panels depicting auspicious animals including a tiger, a phoenix, a lion, ducks and peacocks, and with one panel depicting archaistic vessels containing flowers and scholar's objects, all reserved on a yellow ground decorated with lotus scroll, issuing fourteen scrolled candle arms with winged putto terminals and adorsed rams masks, on a circular gadrooned foot, electrified
58 in. (147.3 cm.) high, overall

Specialist note

These palatial ormolu-mounted vases relate closely to two Kangxi vases sold Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie's, New York, 15 September 2016, lots 870 and 871, both formerly in The Collection of John D. Rockefeller Jr. ($112,500 and $52,500, respectively).