Model bird
Category
Ceramics
Date
1745
Materials
porcelain, ormolu and gilt
Measurements
300 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Meissen
Order this imageCollection
Fenton House, London
NT 1448098.1
Summary
One of a pair of ormolu-mounted parakeet candelabra, the birds to left and right in natural colours, perched on a white tree-trunk encrusted with foliage, flowers and twigs, in colours, mounted on Louis XV ormolu scroll-shaped bases from which spring three gilt-metal branches bearing candle-nozzles and leaves and porcelain flowers.
Provenance
Cf. K. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection (1970), Vol. IV, pp. 50-59, nos. 18-22.