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A RARE PAIR OF UNUSUAL
FAMILLE ROSE LADY-FORM
WALL CANDLE HOLDERS

JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)

Each is modeled in mirror image in the form

of a lady standing on a base in the form of a

horned three-clawed dragon-carp in roiling

waves. Each lady is dressed in loose robes

decorated with fower blossoms, and holds

with both hands a lobed vase-form candle

holder. The fat backs are pierced with three

small holes.

13Ω in. (34.3 cm.) high (2)

$30,000-40,000

PROVENANCE

Mary Stillman Harkness (1874-1952)
Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, accessioned in 1950.

Wall-mounted fgural candle holders are
very rare, particularly those with dragon-
carp-form bases, such as the present pair.
Another pair of lady-form candle holders,
but with lotus-pod-form bases, is illustrated
by M. Cohen and W. Motley in Mandarin
and Menagerie, Chinese and Japanese Export
Ceramic Figures, Volume I: The James E.
Sowell Collection, Surrey, 2008, p. 103,
no. 5.4. Another pair, but comprising a
gentleman and lady, was sold at Christie’s
New York, 26 January 2006, lot 41.

清嘉慶 粉彩仙女掛壁燭臺一對

來源
Mary Stillman Harkness（1874-1952）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1950年。

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