拍品专文
Cf. Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, ed., The Dictionary of Minton, p. 48, pl. 7 for a similar pair
The Property of
the late MRS. M. DALTON
removed from Stray Lodge, Harrogate
Sold by Order of the Executors
A PAIR OF MINTON CANDLESTICKS modelled as two putti embracing and entwined by rococo-scrolls, lavishly applied with flowers and on circular bases applied with four scroll-and-shell-moulded feet (bases and putti with cracks, chip to flowers and leaves and some lacking, gilding worn) blue crossed swords marks, 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high; and a pair of gilt-metal and Minton porcelain candlesticks modelled as a seated boy and girl wearing striped and flowered dress, she with a garland and he with a basket of fruit, mounted on rococo-scroll-moulded bases applied with curling leafy sprays of flowers terminating in the nozzles (small chips to figures and minor wear to paint), 11in. (28cm.) high, circa 1835 (4)
细节
A PAIR OF MINTON CANDLESTICKS modelled as two putti embracing and entwined by rococo-scrolls, lavishly applied with flowers and on circular bases applied with four scroll-and-shell-moulded feet (bases and putti with cracks, chip to flowers and leaves and some lacking, gilding worn) blue crossed swords marks, 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high; and a pair of gilt-metal and Minton porcelain candlesticks modelled as a seated boy and girl wearing striped and flowered dress, she with a garland and he with a basket of fruit, mounted on rococo-scroll-moulded bases applied with curling leafy sprays of flowers terminating in the nozzles (small chips to figures and minor wear to paint), 11in. (28cm.) high, circa 1835 (4)