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Lot 561 D α

A pair of Augsburg silver candelabra

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 4.500 € - 5.000 €
Result: 10.080 € (incl. premium)
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A pair of Augsburg silver candelabra

The round bases with palmette decor supporting cylindrical plinths applied with Neoclassical figures and columnar shafts with flaring nozzles holding the separately worked three-flame branches with acanthus tendrils and vase-shaped candle nozzles. A tapering corinthian column finial holding a fourth candle nozzle. H 50.3 cm, weight 2,308 g.
Marks of Johann Georg Christoph Neuss, 1828 - 1829.

Neuss was entrusted by Johann Alois Seethaler with the fulfilment of numerous courtly commissions, among others for the House of Hanover and for additions to the "King's Service" for Max I Joseph of Bavaria, sourced from Paris, cf. Seling no. 2665g, fig. 1096.

Provenance

Private collection, Netherlands.

Literature

Cf. a pair of candlesticks by this maker in the Kestner-Museum, Hannover, illus. in Seling 1980, no. 1093.