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Lot 20 Dα

An important pair of Berlin silver candelabra

Auction 1127 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 31.250 € (incl. premium)

An important pair of Berlin silver candelabra

Baluster shafts with rich rocaille decor in relief resting on round lobed bases. The removable branches with two curved arms and vase form nozzles with large drip pans. H 34 cm, total weight 3,015 g.
Marks of Hermann Neupert II, circa 1765.

Hermann Neupert II came from a family of goldsmiths from Norden in Ostfriesland. He was active in Berlin from around 1762 - 1773, where Friedrich II commissioned numerous works from him for the Prussian court. This pair of candlesticks displays stylistic parallels to a set of candelabra commissioned from Neupert in around 1764 which is housed today in Huis Doorn in the Netherlands.

Literature

Cf. a five-flame candelabrum by Neupert monogrammed FR, illus. in cat.: Kaiserliches Gold und Silber, Schätze der Hohenzollern aus dem Schloss Huis Doorn, . For more on this master cf. also: Schiedlausky, Hermann Neupert II - ein Silberschmied in Berlin und Norden, Jahrbuch Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg 1986, p. 49 ff.