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A pair of Meissen figural candlesticks, the porcelain circa 1740, the decoration later image 1
A pair of Meissen figural candlesticks, the porcelain circa 1740, the decoration later image 2
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A pair of Meissen figural candlesticks, the porcelain circa 1740, the decoration later

2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of Meissen figural candlesticks, the porcelain circa 1740, the decoration later

Modelled by J.F. Eberlein for the Swan Service after a design by J.A. Meissonier, embellished in gilding, the flared, circular shell-moulded base with three bracket scrolls with shell terminals, rising to a shell-shaped cartouche filled with gilt, and a spiral bracket entwining two putti, surmounted by leaves accentuated in gilt, supporting the reeded nozzle, each 25cm high, one with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue and impressed "46," the second with impressed "46," (for Elias Grund, sen.) (2)

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Based on an engraving by Louis Desplace and Gabriel Huquier after a design by Juste Arèle Meissonnier (illustrated in U. Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, 2000, ill. 41). The model is listed in Eberlein's work records in September 1739: "1 Tafelleuchter vor Ihro Excellenz den Herrn Graf von Brühl mit zweyen Kindern, zweyen Schültern und vielen Muschel wercke" [1 candlestick [for Heinrich Graf von Brühl] with two children, two shields and much shell work] (quoted in Pietsch (ed.), Schwanenservice, p. 167).

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