Lot
79
A pair of German silver-gilt two-light candelabra
MAKER'S MARK OF FRIEDRICH JAKOB BILLEN, AUGSBURG, 1810
Price realised
GBP 21,850
Estimate
GBP 25,000 - GBP 35,000
A pair of German silver-gilt two-light candelabra
maker's mark of Friedrich Jakob Billen, Augsburg, 1810
Each on oval plinth cast and chased with a band of grotesque swans, rosettes, acanthus and scrolls on a matted ground, with foliage borders, the stems each formed as the kneeling figure of Ceres, her right foot resting on a cornucopia and her left hand supporting scroll branches each terminating in a plain oval drip-pan and cylindrical socket entwined with swan masks, marked on bases only
13in. (33cm.) high
124ozs. (3,867gr.) (2)