Lot 1079 D α

A Meissen porcelain candlestick with a gardener boy

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain candlestick with a gardener boy

Depicting a man in courtly attire sitting in the fork of a tree. The candle nozzles held in two tendril wrapped tree trunks. Blue crossed swords mark on the back of the plinth, unglazed base. With later screws in the restored spouts. H 20.5, W 22.5 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1749.

Provenance

Private collection, Rome.

Literature

A further example of this candlestick housed in the Munich Residence, inv. no. P III 5041 (published in Rückert, Munich 1966, no. 716).