Pair of Candlesticks

Moritz Geiss, Germany

1815-20

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Plate of white soft-paste porcelain with scalloped edges decorated with the Kakiemon "Two Quail" pattern depicting a scene of two quails, one painted in iron red, and the other in blue with green tipped wing feathers, pecking at seeds beneath an arched prunus tree with blue painted trunk and iron-red and gilt decorated flowers in bloom, and facing a flowering shrub with large leaves, the edge with an iron-red meandering leaf border.
Iron worker with tools and products of the Neusalz foundry.
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of an unknown man
Oval medallion of enameled creamware with the portrait of the Roman Emperor Domitian with laurel leaf crown to left and the name "Domitian" below the truncation, the portrait is cream while the ground is a light blue with a border of Etruscan red and black, the reverse likewise enameled light blue.