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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘STANDING LADY’ CANDLE Pairs of candlesticks in the form of what are often described as ‘court
HOLDERS ladies’ holding vases were popular in Europe for use on mantels or
Qianlong period, circa 1750 tables. The vases they hold are particularly fine miniature molded vases
Modeled standing in mirror image as elegant ladies wearing brightly which are slightly adapted from the traditional form of a flaring bronze
enameled iron-red dresses richly decorated with gold roundels vase, gu, to serve as more functional candle holders in a Western
imitating embroidery over floral under-robes, each standing on an home.
upturned blue lotus pad base and holding a vase serving as a candle
holder. For a near-identical pair of figures, see Chinese Porcelain Company,
16 3/4in (42.6cm) high (2) Important Chinese Export Porcelain, New York, 1995, p.78, no.60.

$30,000 - 40,000 References: for a very similar modeled and enameled pair of this type
in the James E. Sowell Collection, see Cohen & Motley, 2008, no. 5.4,
乾隆時期 約1750年 粉彩描金《執觚瓶仕女》燭臺一對 p. 103; and for another pair with leaf-shaped bases formerly in the
Hodroff Collection, see Howard, 1994, p. 258.

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