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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL EUROPEAN- It is unusual to find such a close copy of a European metal shape,
SILVER-SHAPED CANDLESTICKS and candlesticks are rare survivals as they are by definition very fragile
Qianlong period, circa 1740 when made of porcelain. These sticks on stepped bases are dated
the silver-shaped candlesticks painted in rich enamels with various to the second quarter of the 18th century because that is when this
flowers around the nozzles above iron-red scrolls on a yellow ground at style was particularly popular in Western Europe, and many examples
the bulbous section, the baluster mid-section with ruyi-shaped cloud of such sticks survive cast in silver. Although it was probably still
lappets suspending pendant shield-shaped hangings above a band of cheaper to have copies made in porcelain in China than to buy a silver
iron-red key pattern and a further bulbous lower section with ruyi cloud version in London or Amsterdam, this pair may have been a relatively
lappets, the rounded stepped octagonal base painted with various expensive ‘special commission’, since one anticipates a quite high
minutely detailed fruit, nut and berry groupings above a wide band of wastage rate for a very slender upright shape like this during the firing,
pale-blue and sgraffito scrolling lotus. and then (after that initial firing ‘in the white’) the sticks had to be
8in (20cm) high (2). enameled and fired a second time at a lower temperature.
$2,500 - 4,000 See another similar pair illustrated by Cohen & Cohen, The Golden
Gate Collection, Antwerp, 2018, p. 49, no. 39.
乾隆時期 約1740年 青花五彩八方歐洲銀器型燭臺一對
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, Baroque and Roll, Antwerp, 2015, p. 76, no. 50

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque and Roll》，安特衛
普，2015年，頁76，圖版編號50

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