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
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