A large Bremen silver candelabrum - image-1
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Lot 765 Dα

A large Bremen silver candelabrum

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.300 €
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A large Bremen silver candelabrum

Bell-shaped base with visible martelé decor supporting separately worked curved braches with deep drip pans surrounding a central spherical finial and issuing from seven smaller ball motifs. H 18; diameter 47 cm, weight 1,797 g.
Maker's mark BWKS, Bremer Werkstätten für Kunsthandwerkliche Silberarbeiten; designed by Wilhelm Schulze, around 1925.

Schultze's design was produced with five, six or seven branches, some with an additional separately attached shaft. This seven-flame version rarely appears on the market.

Provenance

Private collection, Schleswig-Holstein.

Literature

Cf. a version with a separately attached shaft in the Seawolf Collection, illustrated in cat. A Personal Touch, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2003, no. 139, p. 191.