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275 - CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ELEPHANT-FORM CANDLE HOLDER
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CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ELEPHANT-FORM CANDLE HOLDER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 粉彩瓷塑太平有象 帶木座modelled standing four-square with its head turned, its body carved and moulded, wearingablue harness and purple saddle cloth beneath pink ‘crackled-ice and prunus’ saddle fitted with a trumpet vase-shaped candleholder, with a bespoke wooden stand 17cm wide Private Scottish Collection, Aberdeen; inherited from the current owner's grandfather, who acquired it through a missionary friend based in China, at the turn of the century蘇格蘭私人收藏，亞伯丁；現任藏家繼承自其祖父。其祖父於二十世紀之交，透過一位駐華傳教士友人購得此藏品。 A highly comparable pair of Chinese export ‘Canton famille rose’ elephant-form candlesticks, Qing dynasty, late 19th century, previously in the Diana Dollar Knowles Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 22 Oct 2013, part lot 113.
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