A SET OF EIGHT ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS FROM THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY`S `DOPPELT MATT VERGOLDETE SERVICE` - photo 1
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A SET OF EIGHT ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS FROM THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY`S `DOPPELT MATT VERGOLDETE SERVICE` - photo 9
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A SET OF EIGHT ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS FROM THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY`S `DOPPELT MATT VERGOLDETE SERVICE`

Lot 30
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 30 | A SET OF EIGHT ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS FROM THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY'S 'DOPPELT MATT VERGOLDETE SERVICE'
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A SET OF EIGHT ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT CANDLESTICKS FROM THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY'S 'DOPPELT MATT VERGOLDETE SERVICE'

DRESDEN, SIX WITH MARK OF CHRISTIAN HEINRICH INGERMANN, 1747, TWO WITH MARK OF CARL DAVID SCHRODEL, 1784

Each on shaped circular domed base cast and elaborately chased with spiral scrolls and rocaille, the knopped baluster stem and vase-shaped socket similarly chased, engraved under base with Royal cypher and inventory numbers 25, 26, 27, 28, 35, 36, 37 and 38, six marked under base, the Schrödel pair further engraved with scratch weight '3 mr.11 lt.3 q.1d.' and '3 mr. 14 lt. ..q. 3d.'

9 1⁄2 in. (24.2 cm.) high

222 oz. 9 dwt. (6,920 gr.)

The six Ingermann candlesticks are engraved with cypher 'AR3' for Frederick Augustus II (1696-1763), Elector of Saxony, as Augustus III, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763. The two Schrödel candlesticks carry the cypher 'FA' under coronet for Frederick Augustus I (1750-1827) who reigned as the last Elector of Saxony from 1763 to 1806, as Frederick Augustus III, and as King of Saxony from 1806 to 1827.





Provenance

The 1747 set of six supplied on 20 November 1747 to Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and Augustus III, King of Poland (1696-1763) and by descent to his son,

Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, (1722-1763) by descent to his son,

Frederick Augustus I, King of Saxony, (1750-1827), who commissioned further examples from Carl David Schrödel in 1784, all by descent through the Kings of Saxony to,

Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony (1865-1932).

Transferred to Ball [presumably the Berlin auctioneers Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe] on 25 February 1930.

Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), German banker and collector, by 1934,

Confiscated by the 'Dienststelle Mühlmann', 1941, following the occupation of The Netherlands.

Recovered by Monuments, Fine Art and Archives Section, Munich Central Collecting Point, 2 July 1945, MCCP no. 41,

Returned to the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, The Netherlands, Amsterdam,

Dr Fritz Mannheimer Collection; Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 14-21 October 1952, lot 175.

Antenor Patiño (1896-1982), then by descent.



Literature

Silberkammerinventar Band 1, 1741, Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 10006 Oberhofmarschallamt, Nr. T 11, Nr. 029.

Inventar über das bei der Hofsilberkammer befindliche Gold, Silber, Porzellan, Zinn, Tafelzeug und sämtliche andere Inventarstücke

Band 1, 1774; Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 10006 Oberhofmarschallamt, Nr. T 11, Nr. 041.

Inventar der Hofsilberkammer Band 1, 1882-1918 (1932), Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 10006 Oberhofmarschallamt, Nr. T 11, Nr. 046a.

F. A. Ô-Bÿrn, Die Hof-Silberkammer und die Hof-Kellerei zu Dresden, Dresden 1880.

N. Mitford, Frederick the Great, New York, 1970.
Manufactur:Christian Heinrich Ingermann
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Category:Candlesticks
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