A CHINESE PORCELAIN AND BRASS MOUNTED CANDLE SNUFFERS TRAY

A CHINESE PORCELAIN AND BRASS MOUNTED CANDLE SNUFFERS TRAY

LATE 17TH CENTURY AND LATER

of shaped rectangular form, the porcelain shard painted with figures in a garden and with a blue painted Kangxi four character mark inside a double circle, mounted in a gadrooned frame with a fretwork handle and lion paw feet

15.7cm wide, 15.5cm deep

Literature

See Bourne & Brett.,‘Lighting in the Domestic Interior: Renaissance to Art Nouveau (1991), p.61, no.180 for a comparable example.