A Meissen porcelain candlestick with a gardener boy
A Meissen porcelain candlestick with a gardener boy
Depicting a man in courtly attire sitting in the fork of a tree. The candle nozzles held in two tendril wrapped tree trunks. Blue crossed swords mark on the back of the plinth, unglazed base. With later screws in the restored spouts. H 20.5, W 22.5 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1749.
Provenance
Private collection, Rome.
Literature
A further example of this candlestick housed in the Munich Residence, inv. no. P III 5041 (published in Rückert, Munich 1966, no. 716).
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A Meissen porcelain candlestick with a gardener boy
Depicting a man in courtly attire sitting in the fork of a tree. The candle nozzles held in two tendril wrapped tree trunks. Blue crossed swords mark on the back of the plinth, unglazed base. With later screws in the restored spouts. H 20.5, W 22.5 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1749.
Provenance
Private collection, Rome.
Literature
A further example of this candlestick housed in the Munich Residence, inv. no. P III 5041 (published in Rückert, Munich 1966, no. 716).
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