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Auction archive: Lot number 21

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE AND FRENCH PORCELAIN 'PARROT' CANDELABRA

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$51,380 - US$77,070
Price realised:
£47,500
ca. US$61,014
Auction archive: Lot number 21

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE AND FRENCH PORCELAIN 'PARROT' CANDELABRA

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$51,380 - US$77,070
Price realised:
£47,500
ca. US$61,014
Beschreibung:

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE AND FRENCH PORCELAIN 'PARROT' CANDELABRA CIRCA 1745, THE CHINESE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) Each with a turquoise parrot resting on a pierced aubergine rockwork base, on a shaped plinth, issuing two entwining flowering branches terminating in incised foliate nozzles, on melon-shaped feet 10 ½ in. (27 cm.) high; 9 ¾ in. (24.5 cm.) wide Provenance Possibly from the collection of M. l'Abbé Le Blanc (1707-1781); his sale, Paris, 14 February 1781, lot 120. The Collection of Baron James de Rothschild (1896-1984); his sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 1 December 1966, lot 163.

Auction archive: Lot number 21
Beschreibung:

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE AND FRENCH PORCELAIN 'PARROT' CANDELABRA CIRCA 1745, THE CHINESE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) Each with a turquoise parrot resting on a pierced aubergine rockwork base, on a shaped plinth, issuing two entwining flowering branches terminating in incised foliate nozzles, on melon-shaped feet 10 ½ in. (27 cm.) high; 9 ¾ in. (24.5 cm.) wide Provenance Possibly from the collection of M. l'Abbé Le Blanc (1707-1781); his sale, Paris, 14 February 1781, lot 120. The Collection of Baron James de Rothschild (1896-1984); his sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 1 December 1966, lot 163.

Auction archive: Lot number 21
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