Lot Essay
These candlesticks are after a set of 124 described as "glatt faconniert Spielleuchter" in the 1880 inventory of the Saxon Royal collection recorded by Friedrich August von O'Byrn, Die Hof-Silberkammer und die Hof-Kellerei zu Dresden, 1880, p. 14. Twelve from the original service were sold Christie's New York, 18 October 1994, lot 48.
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