A SET OF FOUR CONTINENTAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER FIGURAL CANDLESTICKS

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12.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 168 | A SET OF FOUR CONTINENTAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER FIGURAL CANDLESTICKS
A SET OF FOUR CONTINENTAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER FIGURAL CANDLESTICKS

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, POSSIBLY GERMANY, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Each on a hexagonal stepped base, the stems shaped as Scapin and figures of the Comedia dell'arte, three engraved on underside respectively No I, No II and N. III

10. 5/8 in. (27 cm.) high

81 oz. 2 dwt. (2,523 gr.)





Provenance

Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 2947 & R 2948).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.

Returned directly from the above to France on 19 October 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.
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