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AN IMPORTANT SET OF TWELVE GERMAN SILVER CANDLESTICKS MADE FOR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS III
MAKER'S MARK OF CARL DAVID SCHRODEL, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1770
Each on spreading circular base, chased with a calyx of stiff leaves, rising to a panelled baluster stem chased with vertical leaves, the sockets chased with acanthus and supporting a circular drip-pan with scalloped rim, each engraved under base with the Royal monogram FA and with scratch weight, also numbered 109 through 118, 121 and 122, marked on bases--6¾in.(17.2cm.) high
(109oz., 3418gr.) (12)
MAKER'S MARK OF CARL DAVID SCHRODEL, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1770
Each on spreading circular base, chased with a calyx of stiff leaves, rising to a panelled baluster stem chased with vertical leaves, the sockets chased with acanthus and supporting a circular drip-pan with scalloped rim, each engraved under base with the Royal monogram FA and with scratch weight, also numbered 109 through 118, 121 and 122, marked on bases--6¾in.(17.2cm.) high
(109oz., 3418gr.) (12)
Literature
These candlesticks are from 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.