A large Chinese famille rose “standing lady” candle holder. Yongzheng
Crisply modeled as a standing lady wearing-brightly enameled blue, yellow and pink long flowing robe, looking directly forwards and holding a cup that serves as a candleholder at her left side, standing on a pierced square base.
- Country:
- China
- Period :
- Yongzheng (1723-1735)
- Material:
- Porcelain
- Dimension:
- 15.94 in. (40 cm)
- Reference :
- E402
- Status:
- sold
Related works
For a similar pair of ladies but with different colors, see The Chinese Porcelain Company, Important Chinese Export Porcelain, 1995, pp. 26/27, no. 18.
See also Cohen & Cohen with Motley, Double Dutch, 2006, no. 10, pp. 92-93, for a pair of figures of boys, of similar size and raised on similarly pierced and decorated bases and bearing candleholders of the same shape.
Notice
Figures of Chinese court ladies holding vases or lotus flowers serving as candleholders were popular “Chinoiserie” objects in thc latcr part of the I8th century. Thc present figure is actually an earlier example and is derived from biscuit models of thc Kangxi period (1662-1722).
This particular model depicts a smaller and more delicate version than the later models and is supported on a decorative plinth. Instead of holding a gu-form or lotus form candleholder, the vessel presented by the lady is shaped as a cylindrical cup. This form of cup can be seen on earlier figural candleholders of the Kangxi period (1662-1722) decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit but in the form of a boy holding the cup-form candleholder. The European taste for more colorfully decorated pieces was developing during the Yongzheng period.
