Two figural Meissen porcelain candlesticks
Two figural Meissen porcelain candlesticks
Designed as female figures in finely painted draperies, with early decor to the faces. The nozzles, lower sections of the shafts and bases painted with naturalistic flowers. Blue crossed swords marks, former's no. 46. Firing cracks, retouches to the gilding. H 31 cm.
1740s/1750s, model attributed to Johann Joachim Kaendler.
Literature
This model in Berling, Das Meissner Porzellan und seine Geschichte, Leipzig 1900, Ffg. 70.
See also Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice. Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden-Berlin 2000, p. 248, from the estate inventory drawn up in 1765, sheet 255.r: "Twenty items of large candlesticks", among which these two could well have been found.
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Two figural Meissen porcelain candlesticks
Designed as female figures in finely painted draperies, with early decor to the faces. The nozzles, lower sections of the shafts and bases painted with naturalistic flowers. Blue crossed swords marks, former's no. 46. Firing cracks, retouches to the gilding. H 31 cm.
1740s/1750s, model attributed to Johann Joachim Kaendler.
Literature
This model in Berling, Das Meissner Porzellan und seine Geschichte, Leipzig 1900, Ffg. 70.
See also Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice. Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden-Berlin 2000, p. 248, from the estate inventory drawn up in 1765, sheet 255.r: "Twenty items of large candlesticks", among which these two could well have been found.
