FOUR GERMAN SILVER CANDLESTICKS

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FOUR GERMAN SILVER CANDLESTICKS
TWO POTSDAM, CIRCA 1740, MAKER'S MARK MULLER (SCHEFFLER NO. 550), ONE BERLIN, CIRCA 1740, MAKER'S MARK OF CHRISTIAN LIEBERKUHN, THE FOURTH CIRCA 1840, MAKER'S MARK OF JOHANN GEORGE HOSSAUER

Each on octagonal base, the octagonal pear-shaped stems rising from plain baluster knop and with applied ribs to the lower corners, with octagonal baluster knop, vase-shaped sockets with fixed octagonal nozzles above, the stems of the first three engraved with differing versions of the monogram FR under a crown, the fourth engraved on the base with the monogram FRW under a crown, the bases engraved with scratch weights, marked under bases--5 3/4in.(14.5cm.) high
(32oz.) (4)

拍品专文

A set of four identical candlesticks, maker's mark FW over MULLER, were sold in these Rooms, April 18, 1989, lot 277; a further six, four by Lieberkuhn and two by Muller, were sold by Christie's, London, June 16, 1967, lot 173. Four by Lieberkuhn were sold by Parke Bernet, New York, April 20, 1946, lot 4, while a further four by him remain in the Prussian Royal collection at Doorn (see H. Schadt and I. Schneider, Kaiserliches Gold und Silber, 1985, cat.no. 56 where it is suggested that these candlesticks may have been made as additional pieces for a dinner service of Frederick I).