JAPAN, 19TH CENTURY A pair of bronze temple candelabras... Lot 64

JAPAN, 19TH CENTURY A pair of bronze temple candelabras with a brown-green patina, consisting of a high foot in the form of a circular shaft flaring towards the base, a hexagonal median bulge surmounted by a hexagonal bowl flaring into three levels. They are adorned with a niello decoration of silver and gold threads, featuring floral scrolls on the foot and geometric and stylized motifs on the cups, the middle part lined with small silver buttons among which fly silver or gold lacquered plovers; the inside of the foot with niello decoration of carps among the waves. (Formerly mounted as a lamp; both in two parts, one at the foot, with attached tenons; the other under the bowl) H. 40.5 cm