A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'PHOENIX' CANDLESTICKS

A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'PHOENIX' CANDLESTICKS
18TH CENTURY

11cm. (2)

Purchased Bonhams London, 31st October 2023, lot 358, formerly The Robert and Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection.

Each modelled as a phoenix perched on a blue and turquoise rockwork base with the candle nozzle emerging from a lotus bloom.

Purchased Bonhams London, 31st October 2023, lot 358; formerly William Clayton, London, 1965, later Galerie d'Art de la Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes, Paris, inv. nos.22747 and 22748, then Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, Collections de la galerie d'Art de la compagnie de la Chine et des Indes, 22-24 March 2021, lot 605, then Jean-Pierre Rousset (1936-2021), then The Robert and Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection.