A MEISSEN LARGE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA CENTERPIECE, SECOND-HALF 19TH CENTURY

A MEISSEN LARGE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA CENTERPIECE, SECOND-HALF 19TH CENTURY

allegorical of the Four Elements, modelled with three putti seated on each scroll-molded leg of the base, Earth holding a cornucopia of fruit, Air with a wreath of flowers around its arm, and Water with a basket of fish, surmounted with a putto representing Fire holding aloft a torch and sat astride a dragon, atop the scroll- and rocaille- molded stem fitted with six S-scroll arms, applied with flower garlands and supporting foliate nozzles, above three pierced cake-stand plates on S-scroll arms, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model number G. 175. 

height 33⅛ in.

84 cm