A PAIR OF GERMAN LARGE SILVER CANDLESTICKS

Lot 45
06.02.2025 00:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 45 | A PAIR OF GERMAN LARGE SILVER CANDLESTICKS
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$ 7 000 – 10 000
A PAIR OF GERMAN LARGE SILVER CANDLESTICKS
19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY HANAU, WITH PSEUDO MAKER'S MARK AND AUGSBURG TOWN MARK
On domed circular bases repoussé and chased in high relief with classical busts spaced by clusters of fruit and classical profile busts, rising to crimped flanges chased with bearded masks and scrolling foliage, with spiral-fluted stems chased with bands of fruit, with removable nozzles chased with interlaced running husks, marked on bases, flanges and nozzles, also struck with later tax mark NRS
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high
92 ozt. 14 dwt. (2,883 gr.)




Provenance

Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl Rosebury, 2nd Earl Midlothian (1882-1974).
Mentmore House sale; Sotheby's London, 18 May 1977, lot 652.
Acquired from S.J. Phillips Ltd., London, 14 June 1977.



Literature

Mentmore, privately printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, 1884, vol. I, p. 82, nos. 52 and 53.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 37, pp. 174-175.
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