A fine and very rare doucai candlestick, China, underglaze blue six-character mark Yongzheng and of the period. Photo Nagel

with a slender cylindrical stem encircled by two bands of three flowers with feathery leaves, supported on a stepped section with a square scroll all above a domed base with long slightly twisting lappets, the upper section with a wide pan with inturned rim, all decorated in pale enamels over the delicately pencilled underglaze-blue outline. Good condition. H. 14,9 cm. Estimate 30 000/50 000 €

A very similar pair of candlesticks was sold at Sotheby’s London, 10.6.1997, Lot 94 - Cf. Sotheby’s Hongkong, 31.10.1995, Lot 506

Nagel. "Asian Art". 2012/11/02 http://www.auction.de/