A PAIR OF RARE MEISSEN PALE-GREEN GROUND CANDLESTICKS

DATED 1876, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BASE AND SIDES, IMPRESSED 18 L 76

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A PAIR OF RARE MEISSEN PALE-GREEN GROUND CANDLESTICKS
Dated 1876, blue crossed swords marks to base and sides, impressed 18 L 76
Each with scroll handles terminating in a Bacchic head, one moulded as a heart, the other as a club, painted with Royal playing cards of the corresponding suit within a ribbon-tied gilt surround, the reverse with a similar medallion centering a heart or a club, raised on a quatrefoil pedestal moulded with ram's masks and wreaths, both inscribed on the underside 'Ausschliefslich angefertigt für Litchfield in London'
7¼in. (18.4cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Robert E. Röntgen, The Book of Meissen, Pennsylvania, 1984, p. 305 for a discussion on the English expert Frederick Litchfield who was instrumental in identifying spurious examples 'sold in the fine manner of the original' and culminated with a law-suit in 1909 against unscrupulous London dealers. It is probable that this special commission was produced for the same Litchfield.

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