Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 78*
A very pair of rare Meissen candlesticks from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1735-38
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £9,562.50 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A very pair of rare Meissen candlesticks from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1735-38
Each with a faceted and knopped stem painted with sprigs of Kakiemon flowers, a band of gilt flowers and gilt lines, with a gilt-edged moulded border of acanthus leaves below the basket-moulded nozzle, the domed bases similarly painted with flower sprigs, applied on each side with a gilt-edged cartouche below a crown, painted with the marriage arms, the gilt scroll mantling moulded with green leaves threaded through the scrolls, flanked by gilt-edged moulded bellflowers, 24cm high crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, one with (unidentified) impressed Dreher's mark of four crosses within a circle (one restored through the shaft) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Graf Alexander Joseph von Sulkowski (1695-1762);
Thence by descent;
The Property of a Lady of Title, sold Sothebys London, 23 May 1967, lot 34 (probably);
European Private Collection;
U.S. Private Collection
The delivery specification of the service records "28 Tafel Leuchter" [28 table candlesticks] (quoted by H. Rakebrand, Meissener Tafelgeschirre des 18. Jahrhunderts (1958), p. 14).
