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FIG. IOG A pair of small candelabra, formed as groups of rock
FIG. IOD with shrines and figures of fakirs of old Chinese
coloured porcelain, mounted with ormolu foliage
branches for two lights each, fitted with coloured
Dresden flowers on plinths of ormolu chased with
lizards and foliage in relief. 8Vz inches high.3

A pair of similar rocky mounts with twining floral
branches and birds and lions above, all unmounted, was
in the possession of John Sparks, Ltd., in 193 8.4 A simi-
lar pair mounted as candelabra was sold in Berlin in
I937-5

Gilt-bronze bases decorated with lizards, snails,
and shells are frequently found in conjunction with ori-
ental porcelain. Chinese parrots in the Jones Collection
at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,6 the
Musee Nissim de Camondo, Paris,7 and the Residenz-
museum, Munich, all rest on such bases, and other
examples in public and private collections can be
quoted. It is probable that they were all made in the
workshop of the same bronzier.

PUBLICATIONS
Wilson 1979, p. 40, no. 5; Bremer-David et al.
i993?P- IS2-? no- 2,55-

EXHIBITIONS
Minneapolis Institute of Art, March-September,
1978.

PROVENANCE
H. J. King, sold Christie's, February 17, 1921,
lot 13; Edgar Worsen, New York, 1928; Robert Ells-
worth, New York (acquired in 1975); sold, Robert C.
Eldred Co., New York, August 29-30, 1975, lot 151;
Alan Hartman, New York; acquired by the J. Paul
Getty Museum from Matthew Schutz, Ltd., New York,
in 1978.

NOTES
1. Stephen W. Bushell, Oriental CeramicArt. . . from

the Collection ofW. T. Walters (New York, 1899),
p. 257, fig. 308.
2. Edgar Munhall, "Savoyards in French Eighteenth-Cen-
tury Art," Apollo (February 1968), pp. 86-94.
3. Christie's, London, March 15, 1897, lot ZI4? bought
by E. M. Hodgkins for £147. It is possible that these
candelabra or others of similar design were sold again at
Palais d'Orsay, Paris, June 13, 1979, no. 40.
4. See "The Antique Dealer's Fair and Exhibition,"
Connoisseur 102 (October 1938), pp. 203-4.
5. Emma Budge collection, Hamburg, sold at Paul Graupe,
Berlin, September 27-29, 1937, no. 728.
6. Ace. no. 813, 8i3a-i882.
7. Ace. no. 219.

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