A CLOISONNE ENAMEL PRICKET CANDLESTICK QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

of square section with a tall domed base rising to an archaistic zun-form middle section below a wide drip pan, supporting the tall columnar neck and upper drip pan, brightly enameled with lotus lappets, prunus blooms, taotie masks and confronted kuilong, partly reserved on a leiwen-imitation ground and all reserved on a turquoise-blue enamel ground, horizontally divided by cast lotus lappets and keyfret borders, and vertically segmented by three registers of flanges, later fitted for electricity and converted into a lamp