A RARE POLYCHROME 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' WALL SCONCE Qianlong Modelled as a bracelet-encircled arm, the hand formed to hold a candleholder and issuing from a teardrop-shaped bracket lightly moulded in relief with cloud scrolls, the arm white with a gilt bracelet and a gilt base to the candleholder, mounted on a later wood plaque. 15.9cm (6 1/4in) long. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清乾隆 彩釉臂狀燭台 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2013, no.41 出版著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，編號41 See M.Clayton, The Collector's Dictionary of Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, London, 1971, pl.38, for a pair of silver-gilt sconces with branches in the form of human arms, bearing London hallmarks for 1684, in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. For similar examples, see D.Howard and J.Ayers, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, London, 1978, p.177, no.172; and D.Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain: Chine de Commande, London, 1974, pl.113, for an example in the collection of the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden. Note also a pair of similar painted enamel sconces illuatrated by S.Kjellberg Svenska Ostindiska Compagnierna 1731–1813: Kryddor, Te, Porslin, Siden, Malmo, 1975, facing p.221. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com