A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA WITH FIGURES ALLEGORICAL OF THE SEASONS modelled by Ernst Leuteritz, each with two scantily clad putti seated against a scroll-moulded column applied with flowers, one with Spring and Summer, the other with Autumn and Winter, each supporting a single nozzle and drip-pan fitted with four scrolling arms applied with garlands and with foliate nozzles and drip-pans, on spreading four-footed bases painted with scattered flowers and moulded with scrolls and feuilles-de-choux, the moulded details and rims enriched in gilding (damage and partial old restoration to one arm and drip-pan, two leaves of one drip-pan lacking, various chips to extremities, Summer's sickle lacking), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 70, incised C128 and C129, painted numbers 28, circa 1860

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA WITH FIGURES ALLEGORICAL OF THE SEASONS modelled by Ernst Leuteritz, each with two scantily clad putti seated against a scroll-moulded column applied with flowers, one with Spring and Summer, the other with Autumn and Winter, each supporting a single nozzle and drip-pan fitted with four scrolling arms applied with garlands and with foliate nozzles and drip-pans, on spreading four-footed bases painted with scattered flowers and moulded with scrolls and feuilles-de-choux, the moulded details and rims enriched in gilding (damage and partial old restoration to one arm and drip-pan, two leaves of one drip-pan lacking, various chips to extremities, Summer's sickle lacking), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 70, incised C128 and C129, painted numbers 28, circa 1860
18in. (45.5cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), op. cit., p. 89, Fig. 224