Wall light (one of a pair), birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750, French, Vincennes and Chinese, Glazed biscuit Chinese porcelain parrots of K'ang Hsi period; soft-paste Vincennes porcelain flowers; 19th century hard-paste flowers; gilt-bronze, Height: 23 in. (58.4 cm), Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, The parrots on pierced rockwork bases are of Chinese porcelain from the K'ang Hsi period (1662–1722), mounted as wall lights in Paris in the mid-eighteenth century. They are a standard export model of which a number of examples are known
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Wall light, pair, birds 1662–1722, flowers, mounts ca, 1750, French, Vincennes, Chinese, Glazed biscuit Chinese porcelain parrots, K'ang Hsi period, soft-paste Vincennes flowers, 19th century hard-paste, gilt-bronze, Height, 23, 58.4 cm, Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, parrots, pierced rockwork, bases, Chinese porcelain, Hsi, period, 1662–1722, mounted, wall lights, Paris, mid-eighteenth century, standard export, model, number, examples
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