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A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE ‘FOREIGNER’ CANDLESTICKS A very similar pair of ‘blackamoor’ candlesticks mounted in gilt-bronze
Kangxi as a candelabra, Kangxi, acquired by King George IV, is in the British
Each modelled as a squatting dark-skinned foreigner raising a Royal collection and illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese
quatrefoil basin containing a pricket holder over his head, wearing a Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Vol.I, London,
tunic intricately decorated with lotus scrolls and chrysanthemums, 2016, pp.258-259, nos.548-549. Another similar pair of famille verte
the face with bushy eyebrows and beard and large bulging eyes, the candlesticks, Kangxi, is illustrated by W.Sargent, Treasures of Chinese
pedestal decorated on three sides with florets reserved on a lattice Export Ceramics, New Heaven, 2012, p.452, pl.249.
ground, and on the back with bamboo and prunus.
31cm (12in) high. (2). A very similar pair of famille verte candlesticks in the form of foreigners,
Kangxi, was sold at at Sotheby’s London, 13 May 2015, lot 382.
£8,000 - 12,000
CNY71,000 - 110,000

清康熙 五彩胡人獻寶燭臺 一對

Provenance: an Italian private collection

來源： 意大利私人收藏

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