A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE PORCELAIN THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA

Lot 34
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 120 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 34 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE PORCELAIN THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE PORCELAIN THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1785-90, ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BY DOMINIQUE DAGUERRE, THE PORCELAIN ARITA, EDO PERIOD, CIRCA 1670-1700

Each modelled as a seated boy with a dog in his lap and wearing a hat decorated with foliate and floral motifs, the central branch with foliate nozzle and drip-pan above a spirally-gadrooned arm issuing from an acanthus-leaf clasp supporting the boy and two side branches with palm-leaf drip-pans and nozzles, on a shaped plinth with mille-raies panels on gadrooned and spirally-reeded bun feet

Each 12 1⁄2 in. (32 cm.) high; 10 1⁄2 in. (27 cm.) wide; 6 in. (15 cm.) deep





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