A Meissen porcelain-mounted gilt-bronze candelabrum the porcelain circa 1750, the mounts Louis XV/XVI, Transitional, circa 1765

in the form of a youth in eighteenth century dress within a floral bower amongst porcelain flowers issuing two scrolled candlearms, the drip-pans in the form of lambrequins with an adjustable silk shade (now lacking) with gilt-bronze drapery and tasselled cresting mounted with porcelain flowers on a scrolled base cast with swags of berried laurel

Marcel Bissey, Paris
Sold from the Estate of the late Giuseppe Rossi, Vol. II, in these Rooms, 10th-12th March 1999, lot 653.

Some of the flowers are possibly replaced and have minor chips. There is one flowerhead off, which can easily be re-attached. Thumb on right hand of male figure missing. In overall good condition.
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Another candelabrum with a porcelain figure, but lacking its superstructure was sold as lot 139, from the Alberto Bruni Tedeschi Collection, in these Rooms, 21st March 2007.