A MATCHED PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE PAINTED ENAMEL WALL SCONCES QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Delicately painted in mirror image with a long-tailed bird perched on a prunus branch beside day-lilies, peonies and rocks below butterflies in flight, within elaborate floral borders, on which one has additional birds; with later European white metal detachable candleholders 22 in. (56 cm.) high overall Provenance R. L. Harrington Ltd., London, where acquired, June 1963.
A MATCHED PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE PAINTED ENAMEL WALL SCONCES QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Delicately painted in mirror image with a long-tailed bird perched on a prunus branch beside day-lilies, peonies and rocks below butterflies in flight, within elaborate floral borders, on which one has additional birds; with later European white metal detachable candleholders 22 in. (56 cm.) high overall Provenance R. L. Harrington Ltd., London, where acquired, June 1963.
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