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Lot 381 Dα

A pair of Ghent silver candelabra

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 11:00 - Decorative Arts I (Silver)
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.720 € (incl. premium)

A pair of Ghent silver candelabra

Round base with palmette fries, the fluted shafts supporting vase shaped nozzles. Three-flame upper sections with central acanthus crowns. The base monogrammed "PLB". H 46.5 cm, weight 2,150 g.
Marks of Pieter Joseph Jacques Tiberghien (the branches unmarked), 1795.

Literature

Cf. a pitcher by this maker with this mark in the Museum für Kunst und Geschichte in Brussels, illus. in cat.: Edelsmeedkunst in Belgie, Tielt 1988, no. 258. Cf. also Vandenbussche/Ormelingen/Van Damme, Biografisch lexicon van de Gentse edelsmeden, Ghent 2012, p. 247.