A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND TOLE-MOUNTED MEISSEN AND FRENCH PORCELAIN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

THE MEISSEN SWANS ATTRIBUTED TO J.J. KAENDLER AND MID-18TH CENTURY, THE PORCELAIN FLOWERS LARGELY 18TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND TOLE-MOUNTED MEISSEN AND FRENCH PORCELAIN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
THE MEISSEN SWANS ATTRIBUTED TO J.J. KAENDLER AND MID-18TH CENTURY, THE PORCELAIN FLOWERS LARGELY 18TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE
Each with a swan with turned head surmounted by three scrolling foliate branches terminating in foliate drip-pans and nozzles, on a rockwork base
19 in. (48 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Doyle Galleries, New York, 25 October 2000, lot 237.

Lot Essay

These Meissen swans can be attributed to Johann Joachim Kändler (d. 1775) who credited with creating the model in circa 1748. Several comparable mounted and unmounted porcelain groups exist, including three pairs in the Wrightsman Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (C.C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, Porcelain, Greenwich, 1970, cats. 36 - 38, pp. 80 - 85).

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