A rare pair of porcelain and ormolu mounted candle holders

A rare pair of porcelain and ormolu mounted candle holders, each mounted with a Chinese biscuit porcelain model of a laughing boy wearing a blue glazed apron, their top knots cold painted in red. The elaborate ormolu leafy branches terminating in flower head candle holders with green painted details, each base finely cast with leaves issuing from rockwork, the porcelain Qianlong 1736-95, the ormolu French and probably nearly contemporary, 19cm wide. (2) Cf. Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europaischen Fassungen, no.365, p.360 for a pair of boys similarly mounted, from the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich.