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Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Johann Joachim Kaendler A three-flame candelabra with a Meissen porcelain music group Fire-gilt bronze and painted metal mounts with soft paste porcelain flowers. Rare three-figure group on a rocky base applied with large flowers. Three candle nozzles above drip pans, mounted on leafy branches adorned with flowers. Ormolu mounts of pierced C-scroll rocaillework and flowering branches. No visible marks. Both hands of the dancing gentleman restored, as well as the lady’s frontmost arm and the feet of the lute player; some flowers replaced. Height 27.5 cm, width approx. 30 cm, depth approx. 19 cm. The porcelain Meissen, c. 1745, the model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, the mounts Paris, mid-18th C. Provenance Sotheby’s London, auction on 12 March 1999, lot 675. South German private collection. Literature The group is illustrated in Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, vol. 2, Stuttgart 2023, taxa no. 574.
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