Collections Online

Candlestick, soft-paste porcelain, chamberstick fable model based upon Aesop's Fable story "The Cock with the Jewel", on rococo style base with three legs and scrolling picked out in gilt and the top of the base is green with applied flowers of puce, blue and red, a large complicated bocage at rear made up of clusters of applied hand modelled white flowers with puce and, orange and blue, flowers intermingled, upon the base is the fable scene depicting a cockrel standing proudly in the centre with a red jewel attached to a gilt chain moulded at his feet, a hen with three chicks sits on his right and a hen pecking a another smaller one to his left, they are painted in brown, purple and red enamel with feather effect, the bocage leads into candle holder with circular cross section, lip at bottom of candle holder is shaped into petal formation, five pierced holes with moulded edges are evenly spaced around the circumference of the holder and has a shaped rim edge, touched in green and gilt, handle with very simple moulding low at back, glazed with some ares missed causing a yellow tint