A pair of 'bird and tortoise' pricket candlesticks, Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century | 清十八/十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯海宴河清燭臺一對, A pair of 'bird and tortoise' pricket candlesticks, Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century | 清十八/十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯海宴河清燭臺一對

A pair of 'bird and tortoise' pricket candlesticks
Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century
清十八/十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯海宴河清燭臺一對

each candlestick featuring a bird with outstretched white enamel wings with gilt-wire details standing on a green, turquoise and blue enamelled tortoise embracing pared serpents, with heads lowered and supporting the drip pans, all within a saucer raised on small ruyi-head feet
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Heights 26.5 and 26 cm, 10 1/2 by 10 1/4 in.

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Provenance:
Formerly in a private collection, Paris.

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