A pair of Chinese export porcelain candlesticks Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period, circa 1765

each modelled after English silver forms, the octagonal body painted in iron-red and puce and heighted with gilt depicting stylised floral bands

Ogden Phipps Collection, New York;
Until sold, his collection, Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2002, lot 90.

One broken and repaired, with a metal pin on the base securing the broken piece. There are enamel wear and rubbing to the gilding to both.
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A candlestick of this model is illustrated by Arlene M. Palmer, A Winterthur Guide to Chinese Export Porcelain, fig.18, and a similar smaller pair was in the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland, sold, Sotheby's New York, 19 January 2002, lot 211.