Pair Of Porcelain Candlesticks

Pair of Rococo style enameled hard porcelain candlesticks, richly decorated in polychrome and highlighted with gold. Each candlestick features a curved silhouette resting on a large circular molded base, enlivened with large turquoise and parma lambrequins, framing finely hand-painted chinoiserie scenes. These cartouches illustrate orientalized figures in stylized landscapes, inspired by the taste for exoticism that characterized the European Enlightenment, here reinterpreted at the end of the 19th century. The upper parts of the shaft are decorated with floral garlands and rocaille scrolls in relief, highlighted with gold. The whole demonstrates mastered technical know-how, both in the modeling and in the precision of the enamel. Under the base, one of the candlesticks bears an AR monogram painted on the glaze in blue, as well as an incised number “36” in the paste. These characteristics evoke a German historicist production of the end of the 19th century, in the taste of Fürstenberg porcelain of the 18th century. The style, the colors, and the decorative references are typical of the great German manufacturers who revisited the Rococo repertoire around 1880–1900 (Fürstenberg, Sitzendorf, Ludwigsburg, etc.).