A large and rare Meissen white 'Sulkowski Service' candelabra, circa 1736-40
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, as a classical figure of a seated lady holding a cornucopia issuing two foliate branches mounted with another four branches with sconce terminals, and a large foliate scroll at the rear resting on her head and supporting a fifth sconce, seated on a waisted pedestal moulded with scrolls and applied at the front with two armorial shields flanking a scroll and reeds with lion-mask terminal flanked by putti, the base moulded with scroll brackets at the sides and hanging drapery with tassels at the front and rear, 61.3cm high (some restoration and replacements)
This model for the famous table service delivered to Count Alexander von Sulkowski is mentioned repeatedly in Kaendler's work records between February and September 1736; see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 489, for one of the examples in the Schneider Collection decorated with the arms of Sulkowski and his wife. Another undecorated example of this model was in the collection of Albert Dasch, Teplitz, sold by Lepke's Berlin, 4 March 1913, lot 55. Other than the four in the Schneider Collection, another painted armorial example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 1988.167). The model was also used around 1739-40 for the service made for Johann Christian Hennicke (see J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), ill. 61).
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Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, as a classical figure of a seated lady holding a cornucopia issuing two foliate branches mounted with another four branches with sconce terminals, and a large foliate scroll at the rear resting on her head and supporting a fifth sconce, seated on a waisted pedestal moulded with scrolls and applied at the front with two armorial shields flanking a scroll and reeds with lion-mask terminal flanked by putti, the base moulded with scroll brackets at the sides and hanging drapery with tassels at the front and rear, 61.3cm high (some restoration and replacements)
This model for the famous table service delivered to Count Alexander von Sulkowski is mentioned repeatedly in Kaendler's work records between February and September 1736; see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 489, for one of the examples in the Schneider Collection decorated with the arms of Sulkowski and his wife. Another undecorated example of this model was in the collection of Albert Dasch, Teplitz, sold by Lepke's Berlin, 4 March 1913, lot 55. Other than the four in the Schneider Collection, another painted armorial example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 1988.167). The model was also used around 1739-40 for the service made for Johann Christian Hennicke (see J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), ill. 61).
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