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Lot 8*

Two Vienna figural candlesticks, circa 1744-49

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Two Vienna figural candlesticks, circa 1744-49

Each with two putti with coloured robes supporting a cornucopia-shaped shaft applied with trailing flowers, the bases with gilt-edged scrollwork, the sconces edged in gilding, 24.3cm high, one with impressed shield mark and R, the second unmarked (chip to scrollwork, small chips to applied flowers and leaves) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna (by 1904);
Confiscated by the Vienna municipal authorities in November 1938;
Acquired by the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum (later Museum für angewandte Kunst), Vienna, in October 1940 (inv. nos. Ke 7771 and Ke 7772);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2003;
Thence by descent

Literature:
W. Mrazek/W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864 (n.d. - 1970), nos. 371 and 372

Exhibited:
Vienna, K.K. Oe. Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Alt-Wiener Porzellan, March-May 1904, nos. 241 and 242

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