A PAIR OF MEISSEN TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each with figures of bird-nesters at the foot of a gnarled tree with branches terminating in flowered nozzles and leaf-moulded drip-pans, one modelled with a young man taking eggs from a nest and passing them to a child gathering them in her white dress, the other with a boy passing eggs from the branches of the tree to a young woman gathering them in her apron, on grassy mound bases edged in gilt (parts of two drip-pans lacking, chips to branches, leaves and fingers, chip and restored crack to one base, old restoration to tops of branches where drip-pans attached), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 120 and 144, incised 1160 and 1153, circa 1880