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Chinese export porcelain candlestick of trumpet shape with a small dish at the top and a wide outflared base. It is decorated overall with the "Rose Medallion" pattern of figures and floral motifs in polychrome enamels and some gilt.
candlesticks
enamel paint
gilding
porcelain
Chinese export
Candleholder
Candlestick
Candlestick
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Jingdezhen, China
8 1/4 x 4 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.533
Probably
Probably
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