Pair of large Empire silver table candlesticks. Trumpet-shaped stand surrounded by an engraved egg-and-dart frieze, weighted. Nodus surrounded by lancet leaves in relief, merging into a conical baluster shaft. A swinging leaf wreath in relief on the shoulder. Above a vase-shaped spout with a removable eave bowl decorated to match the stand. One of the two eaves bowls decorated with a delicately engraved depiction of a flute player with a dancing bear. Fig. 13 lot, master Wilhelm Conrad Hessenberg (became master in 1799). Weight in total approx. 1355 g. H. 29 cm. Cf. Scheffler, Hesse, BZ 170, no. 533, MZ 315 b. A pair of German weighted Empire silver candlesticks by Wilhelm Conrad Hessenberg (master since 1799). Standard mark 13 lot and master's mark. German. Frankfurt on the Main. Circa 1805.

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