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A Rare Set of Six Meissen Imari Three-Footed Candlesticks, Circa 1735

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October 17, 04:56 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Rare Set of Six Meissen Imari Three-Footed Candlesticks, Circa 1735


of baroque trefoil form, supported on three scroll-feet, painted with underglaze-blue branches issuing flowers in enamels, enriched in gilding, four with crossed swords marks and K mark in underglaze-blue, one with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, four with Dreher's mark of a cross and four dots for Andreas Schiefer


height 10 1/8 in. 25.8 cm

Dr. Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam & Paris, inv. no. Por. 86a/f;

Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague (acquired from the Estate of the above in 1941 on behalf of the Sonderauftrag Linz for the proposed Führermuseum);

On deposit at Kloster Stift Hohenfurth;

On deposit at Salzbergwerk Bad Aussee;

Recovered from the above by Allied Monuments Officers and transferred to the Central Collecting Point Munich (MCCP inv. no. 1590/6);

Repatriated from the above to Holland between 1945 and 1949;

Dr Fritz Mannheimer Collection, Amsterdam, sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, October 14-21, 1952, lot 304;

Acquired at the sale by Mr Saemy Rosenberg for 7,800Fl;

The Collection of the Late Mr and Mrs Saemy Rosenberg, sale, Replica Shoes 's New York, November 8, 1985, lot 100