A pair of candelabra with Meissen porcelain figures - image-1

Lot 1682 Dα

A pair of candelabra with Meissen porcelain figures

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 17:30 - Decorative Arts - Furniture
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 5.040 € (incl. premium)

A pair of candelabra with Meissen porcelain figures

Three-flame ormolu table candlesticks with seated porcelain figures as allegories of summer and winter. Some flowers lost, minor restorations to the flowers, a breakage to the wheat in the figure of summer. H c. 25, W c. 23 cm.
Paris, 18th C., the figures Meissen, models by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1741.

Provenance

Acquired from Röbbig art dealers, Munich.

Literature

Cf. Pietsch, Die figürliche Meißener Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler, München 2006, cat. Nr. 108 f., for the figures of autumn and winter from the porcelain collection in Dresden SKD, inv. nos. P.E. 537 and 538.