A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND PORCELAIN TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND PORCELAIN TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed19 October 2023

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND PORCELAIN TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Formed as large seated figures of Shou Lao with bare abdomen, holding peach sprays and wearing ormolu cabbage leaf hats and with ormolu foliage branches behind, mounted with white porcelain flowers and each with branches for two lights, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
12 ½ in. (31.75 cm.) high, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide, 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) deep

Nellie Baillie, 2nd Baroness Burton (1873-1962);
By descent to Michael Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton (1924-2013), according to Partridge invoice.
Acquired from Partridge, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty on in 1983.