A rare German silver tree-form Hanukah lamp, Müller, Berlin, late 18th century

in the form of a flowering tree, spice-compartment finial, the twelve-sided base chased with acanthus within die-rolled border of stars, matching servant light, marked on base rim

Detroit 1992: Feast of LIghts, Janice Charach-Epstein Museum (W. Bloomfield), December, cat. no. 42
Chicago 1985: Spertus Museum of Judaica, Symbols of Faith

finial is 18th c. but possibly associated, ?date of plain cap at top of foot, otherwise good, unusual design
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The Müller mark is used into the 1790s, long after the probable death of Martin Friedrich Müller (b. 1706).  The firm was continued by one or more of his sons (see Scheffler, pp. 116-122).  Scheffler lists a rococo-form Hanukah lamp by Muller (p. 120).

A similar Berlin silver tree-form lamp by Georg Wilhelm Margraff, Berlin, c. 1776, was sold Sotheby's, June 23, 1983, lot 466 and cover.