TWO LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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TWO LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1760 MODELLED BY J. J. KAENDLER, THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE

Comprising a black and a white swan, each perched amidst rushes and with a crown collar, on circular base cast with waves above Vitruvian scrolls issuing and fitted with foliate-cast drip pans and nozzles cast with swags and suspending laurel swags, on bracket feet cast with Greek key--19½ (49.5cm.) high

PROVENANCE
Alice de Rothschild, London
Katherine Deere Butterworth, Moline, Illinois, sol Parke-Bernet Galleries, 21-23 October 1954, lot 420

An identical but smaller pair was offered in these Rooms, 1 November 1990, lot 86, and another pair was with The Antique Porcelain Company in 1975. (2)