A pair of Berlin silver candlesticks for the Prussian royal house
Moulded bases with palmette motifs supporting tapering faceted shafts with corresponding decor. The vase-shaped nozzles with separately attached drip pans. The shafts each engraved with the initial M beneath the Prussian royal crown. H 23 cm, weight 780 g.
Marks of Johann George Hossauer, 1842 - 1847.
The maker's mark H (recessed), which some Berlin works bear, is attributed to Johann George Wilhelm Heinicke (no. 325) by Scheffler. It is also possible that Hossauer's collaborator Johann Heinrich Ludolf Hemmen, whose mark is not yet known, also marked his works for Hossauer in this way.
Queen Marie of Bavaria, born Princess of Prussia and from 1842 the wife of King Maximilian II Joseph, is a possible candidate for the engraved monogram M.
Literature
Cf. an identical candlestick by the court supplier Sy & Wagner produced after 1859, illus. in cat. Kaiserliches Gold und Silber, Schätze der Hohenzollern aus dem Schloss Huis Doorn, Berlin 1985, no. 120.
Huis Doorn is also furnished with 12 examples of this candlestick, some with two-flame candelabra branches, which are exhibited in the Orangery. The model, as is often the case with silver for the Prussian royal house, appears to have been commissioned over several generations from various makers.
For more on the mark "H" see Melitta Jonas, Gold und Silber für den König, Berlin 1998, p. 58, note 110.