A Frederician Berlin silver candelabrum - image-1
A Frederician Berlin silver candelabrum - image-2
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Lot 24 Dα

A Frederician Berlin silver candelabrum

Auction 1193 - overview Berlin
07.05.2022, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale & Berlin Salon
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 16.250 € (incl. premium)
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A Frederician Berlin silver candelabrum

The separately attached curved branches with rocaille decor issuing from a baluster-form shaft. H 32.5 cm, weight 986 g.
Marks of Hermann Neupert, 1762 - 73.

Hermann Neupert II came from a family of goldsmiths based in Norden/East Frisia - and worked in Berlin from about 1762 to 1773, where Frederick II entrusted him with extensive commissions for the Prussian royal court. The present candelabrum resembles a set of candlesticks commissioned around 1764, which is now housed in Huis Doorn in the Netherlands.

"Until the end of his long professional life, Neupert persistently adhered to the Rococo style he learned and mastered in Berlin." (Cat. Norder Silber, Norden 1997, p. 20). His elegant works can be found today, for example, in the Oldenburg State Museum or in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Provenance

Lempertz auction 1047, lot 56, 2nd May 2015; private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Cf. a pair of candelabra in Haus Doorn, illus. in cat.: Kaiserlicher Kunstbesitz aus dem holländischen Exil Haus Doorn, Berlin 1991, p. 92, cat. no. 74.4.