Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur

Large candelabra on dolphin feet Porcelain, colored overglaze decoration, gilding. Assembled from numerous individual parts, the feet screwed together. Three inserted arms, each with three spouts. Central palm trunk entwined with a garland of flowers, almost sculptural application of a female allegory and a Cupid. Glazed interior, blue swords mark, engraved model number 1260, shape number 50. Restorations to leaves and flowers, the tails and fins of two dolphins. H 99.5 cm. Meissen, mid-19th century, the model probably by Johann Joachim Kaendler, the arms St. Petersburg, Lomonosov manufactory, before 2005. The magnificent large candelabra was probably originally a model by Kaendler from the years before the Seven Years' War, which was only preserved in fragments. The owner had the object completed at the Lomonosov manufactory. In the 1850s, Ernst August Leuteritz (1818 - 1893) began to rework older models of tableware, vases and candelabras and offer them for sale again. These included this candelabra with the model number 1216, although the version he designed has different figure applications.