A SET OF FOUR ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA FROM THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY`S `DOPPELT MATT VERGOLDETE SERVICE`

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Lot 32 | A SET OF FOUR ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA FROM THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY'S 'DOPPELT MATT VERGOLDETE SERVICE'
A SET OF FOUR ROYAL GERMAN SILVER-GILT FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA FROM THE ELECTOR OF SAXONY'S 'DOPPELT MATT VERGOLDETE SERVICE'

MARK OF CHRISTIAN HEINRICH INGERMANN, DRESDEN, 1747

Each on shaped circular domed base cast and chased with matt textured spiral scrolls and rocaille, the knopped baluster swirling stem and vase-shaped socket similarly chased, the four foliate scrolling branches rising from a moulded bud and with conforming sockets and drip-pans, engraved under base and on branch sleeve with inventory numbers 21, 22, 23 and 24, three marked underneath, the branches and one candlestick unmarked

Total height: 19 5⁄8 in. (50 cm.)

366 oz. 5 dwt. (11,393 gr.)





Provenance

Supplied on 20 November 1747 to Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and Augustus III, King of Poland (1696-1763), 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), 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.

This or the previous lot Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), German banker and art 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 p. 41,

Returned to the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Dr Fritz Mannheimer Collection; Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 14-21 October 1952, lot 177.

Antenor Patiño (1896-1983), 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. O'Byrn, Die Hof-Silberkammer und die Hof-Kellerei zu Dresden, Dresden, 1880.

N. Mitford, Frederick the Great, New York, 1970.
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