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Lot 1020 Dα

A silver and gold plated bronze candelabra made for Baron Abraham Oppenheim

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 7.560 € (incl. premium)
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A silver and gold plated bronze candelabra made for Baron Abraham Oppenheim

Fluted base on four paw feet supporting a cylindrical plinth with a relief of dancing putti holding a finely chased fruit garland. The tapering columnar shaft with flower and grain reliefs supporting a nine-flame candle attachment with vase shaped nozzles and palmette drip pans. The shaft applied with two cartouches monogrammed AO beneath a baronial crown. H 85 cm.
Paris, marks of Christofle & Cie., designed by Jean-Baptiste-Jules Klagmann, around 1868.

The present candelabra is part of a multi-part centerpiece that the Cologne banker Abraham Oppenheim commissioned from Christofle, probably on the occasion of his elevation to the status of baron in 1868.
The order, one of the last designs by the sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Jules Klagmann, was apparently never delivered, as the set was later exhibited by Christofle at the Union Central des Arts Décoratifs in 1869 and at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1889.

Literature

Illus. in Henri Bouilhet, Christofle: Silberschmiede seit 1830, Paris, 1981, p. 111.