Each comprising a baluster vase surmounted by a trumpet vase joined with ormolu mounts; the vases decorated in typical Imari coloured enamels and gilt with lobed panels containing alternating scenes of a women seated next to a writing box and cat, and a woman looking out from an interior to a cockerel and hen, the shoulders with lobed panels containing karashishi, flowers and butterflies bordered by stylised flowers and foliage, the trumpet vases similarly decorated; the elaborate mounts with two handles modelled as a mermaid and merman on scrolling rocaille, each vase on circular base supported by acanthus-leaves, rocaille and C-scrolls
Each 39¹⁄₄ in. (99.5 cm.) high

Private Collection, Rome.
With Verdini, Rome, from whom acquired by the present owner.

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The fashion for mounting Chinese and Japanese porcelain in ormolu mounts reached its zenith under the Parisian marchands-merciers of the mid-18th century, as their the floral, scrolling porcelain complimented the curves and scrolls of the rococo style. Revived from the mid-19th century, grandiose torchères and vases were also fashionable with America's early captains of industry and 'Robber Barons', who lavishly furnished their palatial residences in the French taste. A large pair of ormolu-mounted Imari ‘candelabra’ are illustrated in The Great Room at Lynnwood Hall, the Philadelphia residence of P.A.B. Widener (M. C. Kathrens, American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer, New York, 2002, p. 66). Compare also a pair of candelabra from Lambton Castle, County Durham, sold Christie’s, London, 8 July 2010, lot 182 (£151,250). A pair of torchères, with slender vases sitting atop baluster vases en suite, and signed by Maison Giroux was sold at Christie’s, London, 22 March 2001, lot 215.