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Based on four-light originals made for Augustus III, Elector of Saxony, by Christian Heinrich Ingermann circa 1750.
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A PAIR OF MASSIVE GERMAN SILVER FOURTEEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
MAKER'S MARK OF BLIEMYER, CIRCA 1880
In the rococo style, each on triform base, elaborately cast and chased with rocaille and acanthus, rising to a twisting baluster stem similarly chased with trailing rocaille, headed by tiers of branches formed as leaf-clad vines, with urn form sockets and leaf-form drip-pans, with central spiralling vine, marked on bases --33in.(84cm.) high
(702oz., 21885gr.) (2)
MAKER'S MARK OF BLIEMYER, CIRCA 1880
In the rococo style, each on triform base, elaborately cast and chased with rocaille and acanthus, rising to a twisting baluster stem similarly chased with trailing rocaille, headed by tiers of branches formed as leaf-clad vines, with urn form sockets and leaf-form drip-pans, with central spiralling vine, marked on bases --33in.(84cm.) high
(702oz., 21885gr.) (2)