The Butler Hoard - 1st July 2025
Lot 201
A CHINESE PORCELAIN AND BRASS MOUNTED CANDLE SNUFFERS TRAY
Estimate £300 - £400
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Description
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.