A PAIR OF MEISSEN FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA, modelled with figures allegorical of Summer and Autumn after models by J. C. Schönheit, Summer as a girl lute-player adorned with flowers and with a boy seated on a wheatsheaf beside her, Autumn as a girl seated on a goat holding vine, and with a boy playing the pipes beside her, each on a grassy mound before a scroll-moulded column applied with fruit and flowers, terminating in a single nozzle fitted with the scrolling arms, on four scroll feet (chips to applied decoration, one with repairs to one arm, end of lute lacking, one girl with restoration to right foot and lower skirt), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 101 and 148, incised 784 and 785, one with painted number 28, circa 1860

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA, modelled with figures allegorical of Summer and Autumn after models by J. C. Schönheit, Summer as a girl lute-player adorned with flowers and with a boy seated on a wheatsheaf beside her, Autumn as a girl seated on a goat holding vine, and with a boy playing the pipes beside her, each on a grassy mound before a scroll-moulded column applied with fruit and flowers, terminating in a single nozzle fitted with the scrolling arms, on four scroll feet (chips to applied decoration, one with repairs to one arm, end of lute lacking, one girl with restoration to right foot and lower skirt), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 101 and 148, incised 784 and 785, one with painted number 28, circa 1860
18½in. (47cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. T. H. Clarke, op. cit., p. 88, nos. 103 and 104 for the original 1782 drawings of these groups; see also Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 19.und 20. Jahrunderts, p. 72, no. 65, for a pair of similar candelabra with figures of Spring and Summer

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