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Lot 210 Dα

A pair of large Empire Berlin silver candelabra

Auction 1217 - overview Berlin
22.04.2023, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 15.120 € (incl. premium)
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A pair of large Empire Berlin silver candelabra

Round bases supporting cylindrical plinths with Classical relief decor. The fluted shafts terminating in Corinthian capitals from which issue three figural branches formed as sphinxes and a central fourth branch formed as a robed figure. H 69 cm, total weight c. 4,400 g.
Marks of Humbert & Sohn, around 1820.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Cf. a near identical pair of candelabra from the workshop of Johann Georg Heinickes, illus. in Wolfgang Scheffler, Berliner Goldschmiede, Berlin 1968, illus. 110.