A South German turned ivory candlestick 17th century

the scalloped circular base with openwork band around the foot, a ring of acanthus leaves surrounding the stem, turned with a wide flaring spiral around the central post, a ring of six petals above, the stem rising to a gadrooned knop underneath a turned ebony disc forming the drip pan with another gadrooned knop above, surmounted by the narrow nozzle with wavy horizontal banding.  The underside of the foot with two blue-bordered inventory labels, one with handwritten "2626," concealing other earlier inventory labels, the other with "47."

Sotheby's, Collection of the Margraves of Baden, Baden-Baden, October 5-21, 1995, lot 278

Wood pin at center of base. Small age cracks and discoloration, particularly to foot. Losses throughout spiral section of stem. Foliate ring above foot possibly a replacement. Ring of petals above spiral possibly also a replacement. Two vertical grooves on either side of lobed knop, possibly for former attachment of another element. Upper and lower sections perhaps associated in the 17th or 18th century. Chipping to wood. Minor surface abrasions throughout.
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The 1740 inventory of the Kunstkammer of the Margravate Baden-Baden, drawn up for Margrave Ludwig Georg (1702-1762), lists the present candlestick as: Ein von helfenbein gewunden gedreheter leuchter mit einem schwartzen bletle.  It appears again in a 1772 inventory of Kunstkammer items transferred from Baden-Baden to the house Baden-Durlach as number 146. Two paper labels bear numbers representing the inventories of 1883 ("2626") and 1919 ("47").  See Sotheby's, Die Sammlung der Markgrafen und Grosshersöge von Baden, Baden-Baden, October 5-21, 1995 for a detailed discussion of the collections and inventories.