Wall light (one of a pair). Culture: French, Vincennes and Chinese. Dimensions: Height: 23 in. (58.4 cm). Date: birds 1662-1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750.The parrots on pierced rockwork bases are of Chinese porcelain from the K'ang Hsi period (1662-1722), mounted as wall lights in Paris in the mid-eighteenth century. They are a standard export model of which a number of examples are known. Similar pairs of parrots were mounted in Paris at various periods as candelabra: a pair mounted about 1720 as two-branch candelabra is in the Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum (see 1975.58.1, .2); a pair mounted about 1750 as three-branch candelabra with soft-paste flowers is in the Historisches Museum, Basel;1 a pair mounted about 1770-80 as two-branch candelabra is in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris;2 and another pair mounted in the nineteenth century as two-branch candelabra is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London3.On the wall light with the parrot fa