A pair of rare Derby porcelain candlesticks with birds - image-1

Lot 1687 Dα

A pair of rare Derby porcelain candlesticks with birds

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 2.375 € (incl. premium)
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A pair of rare Derby porcelain candlesticks with birds

Porzellan (soft-paste porcelain), farbiger Aufglasurdekor, Vergoldung. Chambersticks made from soft-paste porcelain. The shafts surrounded by flowering tendrils in which perch two pairs of birds. The drip pans formed as acanthus leaves. Unglazed unmarked bases. Firing cracks and chips, some localised restorations. H 23.5 and 24.3 cm.
Derby Porcelain Manufactory, around 1770.

Literature

Cf. a similar piece in the Lady Ludlow Collection (illus. in cat. Catalogue of the Lady Ludlow Collection of English Porcelain at the Bowes Museum, London 2007, cat. no. 151.).