Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture

Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 81. A SET OF FOUR SILVER CANDLESTICKS AFTER A THOMAS GERMAIN MODEL, MID 18TH CENTURY.

A SET OF FOUR SILVER CANDLESTICKS AFTER A THOMAS GERMAIN MODEL, MID 18TH CENTURY

Auction Closed

April 16, 08:57 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, MIAMI


A SET OF FOUR SILVER CANDLESTICKS AFTER A THOMAS GERMAIN MODEL, MID 18TH CENTURY


decorated with fluting, entrelac, and ribbon-tied reeded borders, the shoulders with rams’ heads above husk swags

apparently unmarked, the nozzles by Garrards, London, 1845, the bases engraved with weights No 1 / 37-12; No 2 / 36=6; No 3 / 37=2; No 4 / 37=15

149 oz 5 dwt

4646 g

height 11½ in.

29.3 cm

Compare with a pair of candlesticks by Thomas Germain from the Penthièvre-Orléans service, illustrated in Christiane Perrin, François Thomas Germain, orfèvre des rois, p. 93 in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs. Other variants are in the Danish Royal collection.