A Pair of Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Meissen Porcelain Two-Light Candelabra circa 1745-49, the ormolu marked with the C couronné poinçon

each centered by the Meissen porcelain figure of a pheasant on a tree stump, with a pair of voluted ormolu candle branches fitted with an assortment of porcelain polychrome flowerheads and with ormolu leafy drip pans and pierced candle nozzles.  Lacking one bobêche.

A similar porcelain model by Johan Kändler with a pheasant hen with three chicks, Fasan und Fasanhenne mit drei Jungen, was produced in life-size circa 1735 in Meissen.
Similar pheasants are illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert: 1935, pl.  XX, nos. 63-65, and 1959 Edition, nos. 82-85.  In M. Newman, Die deutschen Porzellan - Manufakturen im 18. Jahrhundert, Vol. I, p. 98, fig. 94. Mounted as a single group, in the Catalogue of the Frau Emma Budge Collection, sold at Paul Graupe, Berlin, September 29, 1937, lot 740, plate 117.
A similar pair is in the Léon Levy Collection, Sotheby's, Paris, October 2, 2008, lot 42.
A single candelabrum depicting a female pheasant with three chicks was sold from the French & Company inventory, Christie's, New York, November 24, 1998, lot 12.