Art auctions in the world. Autumn 23

Ahlden/Aller - 9-09-2023

A pair of Empire table candelabras.

120 500.00

Silver. Square plinth. Trumpet-shaped, surrounded by narrow, guilloché-adorned friezes, transitioning into conical, fluted column shafts, ending in leaf-adorned nodes. Above, a smooth, bead-profiled tulip, with a relief sculpted fruit festoon hanging around it. Deep, removable eaves with a raised, pierced edge in the form of aligned laurel leaves. Festoons partially damaged; signed, tremolo stroke, assay marks, mostly by master Leberecht Fournier (became a master in 1815). Weight approximately 490 g. Height 24.5 cm. See Scheffler, Berlin, BZ 13, No. 1677, MZ 312; also see Baur, Metal Candlesticks, p. 150, Fig. 290 (comparable to the shaft of the girandole). A pair of German Empire silver candlesticks by Leberecht Fournier (master since 1815). Minor damages. Tested, assayed, and master's mark. German. Berlin. Circa 1817.

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