A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE II PAKTONG CANDLESTICKS

A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE II PAKTONG CANDLESTICKS

C.1745-60

each with extensive shell decoration throughout, a removable sconce, waisted socket, the stem with a rising-baluster atop a discoid knop, the hexagonal base with an engraved crest opposed by a monogram (2)

23.5cm high

Literature

See K. Pinn, 'Paktong, The Chinese Alloy in Europe 1680-1820', p.89, pl. 46 for a similar pair.