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Lot 238
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H. Südfeld & Co pair of Austrian silver candlesticks

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • silver
  • 13.5cm, 5 1/4 in high
plain circular bases, four column cluster stems, the undersides engraved with the initials DY

Literature

Exh. Cat. Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, 2011, no. 218
Klaus Pechstein, ‘Schätze deutscher Goldschmiedekunst, Ergänzung zu den Ausstellungen in Hanau’, Weltkunst, December 1992, pp. 3523-3525, fig. 400

Catalogue Note

H. Südfeld & Co, manufacturing silversmiths and metalworkers, was founded in 1825 by A.B. Bächer. Hermann Südfeld took over the business in 1881, when production was increased and modern methods introduced. By 1914, when the firm was under the directorship of Heinrich Tandler, the workforce numbered some 80 operatives.  The firm was awarded prize metals at the exhibition in Vienna (1845 and 1873) and in London (1862).