Lot 275
CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ELEPHANT-FORM CANDLE HOLDER
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 06 November 2026 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清 粉彩瓷塑太平有象 帶木座
modelled standing four-square with its head turned, its body carved and moulded, wearing a blue harness and purple saddle cloth beneath pink ‘crackled-ice and prunus’ saddle fitted with a trumpet vase-shaped candleholder, with a bespoke wooden stand
Dimensions
17cm wide
Provenance
Private Scottish Collection, Aberdeen; inherited from the current owner's grandfather, who acquired it through a missionary friend based in China, at the turn of the century
蘇格蘭私人收藏，亞伯丁；現任藏家繼承自其祖父。其祖父於二十世紀之交，透過一位駐華傳教士友人購得此藏品。
Footnote
A highly comparable pair of Chinese export ‘Canton famille rose’ elephant-form candlesticks, Qing dynasty, late 19th century, previously in the Diana Dollar Knowles Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 22 Oct 2013, part lot 113.