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Lot 10
A Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Elephant Candle Holders
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 19th or early 20th century, white elephants with curled trunks and painted eyes with eyelashes, wearing turquoise ground famille rose blankets surmounted with candle holders also decorated in a famille rose palette, gilt around the rim of the candle holders, hollow to interior with two holes to underside of each elephant.

10 1/4 in.

Private collection, Burlington, North Carolina

Good estate condition; some light wear to gilt around candle holder rims.