in the Chinese Export style, each colorful bird with turned head modeled standing on a pierced rockwork base; all raised on black painted metal and brass bases; marked 'France' on underside; Provenance Sotheby's Arcade Furniture & Decorations Sale 1994; from a Greenwich, CT estate; drilled and rewired; excellent condition with minor rubbing and patina to brass base; small chip professionally restored
well-carved giltwood wall mirror with a pagoda-form pediment above an open-work carved foliate frame; excellent antique condition with overall even rubbing to water-gilded surface; later mirror plate
each painted with Chinoiserie decoration beneath a cased-glass surface giving them a beautiful luminescent quality; on reticulated ebonized bases; excellent vintage condition with no chips or cracks; rewired
each lamp decorated with meandering branchwork and cherry blossoms; excellent vintage condition with no chips or cracks; rewired; some wear and patina to brass fittings; underside with under-glaze blue stamp 'porcelaine de paris, france, fondee en 1773'
one of the prettiest pairs of chinese lamps that we have had in our inventory; each of slender baluster form adorned with gilt meandering floral vines; raised on a turned giltwood base; excellent condition with minor even wear; rewired
