Lot No. 998


Porcelain chandelier with 22 candle sockets,


Porcelain chandelier with 22 candle sockets, - Works of Art (Furniture, Sculpture, Glass and porcelain)

white, bronze frame, chased gilt branches and leaves, central baluster decorated with banana palm leaves, 4 banana branches and 2 children, pierced section with semi-sculptural leaves, large section and sub-section with apertures, sculptural flowers and leaves, leaf rocailles and latticework, festoons to base with flowers, branches with sockets and drip guards in the shape of leaves with richly sculptural porcelain flowers, height 120 cm, Ø 90 cm, small chips, some restoration, presumably KPM-Berlin, unmarked circa 1860 (Ru)

Lit. cf.: E. Köllmann, M. Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, Bildband, Munich 1987, p. 620, ill. 620, a pair wall lights, circa 1772, Berlin, Schloß Charlottenburg, collection of Berlin porcelain at the Belvedere;
ill. 621, wall light, circa 1770, Berlin, SMPK, Kunstgewerbemuseum; p. 621, ill. 622, Ansbacher chandelier, gift of Frederick the Great in 1773 to Margrave Alexander von Ansbach-Bayreuth, KPM circa 1770, Ansbach, Residenz, central baluster with pineapple and leafy stems;

Specialist: Ursula Rohringer Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382

ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at

22.10.2014 - 15:00

Estimate:
EUR 10,000.- to EUR 15,000.-

Porcelain chandelier with 22 candle sockets,


white, bronze frame, chased gilt branches and leaves, central baluster decorated with banana palm leaves, 4 banana branches and 2 children, pierced section with semi-sculptural leaves, large section and sub-section with apertures, sculptural flowers and leaves, leaf rocailles and latticework, festoons to base with flowers, branches with sockets and drip guards in the shape of leaves with richly sculptural porcelain flowers, height 120 cm, Ø 90 cm, small chips, some restoration, presumably KPM-Berlin, unmarked circa 1860 (Ru)

Lit. cf.: E. Köllmann, M. Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, Bildband, Munich 1987, p. 620, ill. 620, a pair wall lights, circa 1772, Berlin, Schloß Charlottenburg, collection of Berlin porcelain at the Belvedere;
ill. 621, wall light, circa 1770, Berlin, SMPK, Kunstgewerbemuseum; p. 621, ill. 622, Ansbacher chandelier, gift of Frederick the Great in 1773 to Margrave Alexander von Ansbach-Bayreuth, KPM circa 1770, Ansbach, Residenz, central baluster with pineapple and leafy stems;

Specialist: Ursula Rohringer Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382

ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Works of Art (Furniture, Sculpture, Glass and porcelain)
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 22.10.2014 - 15:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 11.10. - 22.10.2014

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