A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL QUAILS MOUNTED AS CANDELABRA JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820) Modelled with detachable wings, standing with its head turned to one side, the half-open beak with a gilt-metal blossoming branch twin-branch candelabrum in its mouth and the feet mounted standing on a square stand 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) overall. Provenance Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 13 December 2006, lot 278.
A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL QUAILS MOUNTED AS CANDELABRA JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820) Modelled with detachable wings, standing with its head turned to one side, the half-open beak with a gilt-metal blossoming branch twin-branch candelabrum in its mouth and the feet mounted standing on a square stand 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) overall. Provenance Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 13 December 2006, lot 278.
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