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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1750 MODELLED BY J. J. KÄNDLER, THE ORMOLU 19TH CENTURY
Each with the figure of a swan perched amidst later painted tôle bullrushes, on circular base cast with waves and issuing acanthus-cast candlebranches, the bobêches cast with laurel swags above foliate-cast drip pan suspending berried laurel swags on circular pedestal-cast Vitruvian scrolls on Greek key feet headed by paterac and joined by ribbon entwined laurel swags (restorations to porcelain, drilled for electricity)--19½in (49.5cm.) high
Models of the mute swan (Cygnus olor) are recorded as having been introduced by Johann Joachim Kändler (working from 1731-1775) with the assistance of Peter Reinicke as early as November 1747. Figures of swans were executed in various sizes and remained popular into the 19th Century, when larger versions were made from a model created 1775 as one of Kändler's last projects at the Meissen factory.
Pairs of candelabra of this model were in the collection of Mrs. Harvey Firestone, Jr., sold in these Rooms, 22 March 1991, lot 877 and also sold at Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1984, lot 54. (2)
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1750 MODELLED BY J. J. KÄNDLER, THE ORMOLU 19TH CENTURY
Each with the figure of a swan perched amidst later painted tôle bullrushes, on circular base cast with waves and issuing acanthus-cast candlebranches, the bobêches cast with laurel swags above foliate-cast drip pan suspending berried laurel swags on circular pedestal-cast Vitruvian scrolls on Greek key feet headed by paterac and joined by ribbon entwined laurel swags (restorations to porcelain, drilled for electricity)--19½in (49.5cm.) high
Models of the mute swan (Cygnus olor) are recorded as having been introduced by Johann Joachim Kändler (working from 1731-1775) with the assistance of Peter Reinicke as early as November 1747. Figures of swans were executed in various sizes and remained popular into the 19th Century, when larger versions were made from a model created 1775 as one of Kändler's last projects at the Meissen factory.
Pairs of candelabra of this model were in the collection of Mrs. Harvey Firestone, Jr., sold in these Rooms, 22 March 1991, lot 877 and also sold at Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1984, lot 54. (2)