Lot Essay
For a related candelabra see Meredith Chilton (Ed.), Fired by Passion, Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, 2009, Vol. 3, p. 1335, nos. 471-473.
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CIRCA 1740
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A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) WHITE CANDELABRUM
CIRCA 1740
Modelled as a seated musician wearing a tricorn hat, jacket and breeches, playing a guitar on an irregular mound base applied with flowers and leaves and issuing three tree-trunks richly applied with flowers and foliage, two forming candlesticks surmounted with cylindrical gadrooned nozzles (restored through one side of base and branch to right of figure, restoration to some flowers, foliage, left hand and neck of instrument)
7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) high
CIRCA 1740
Modelled as a seated musician wearing a tricorn hat, jacket and breeches, playing a guitar on an irregular mound base applied with flowers and leaves and issuing three tree-trunks richly applied with flowers and foliage, two forming candlesticks surmounted with cylindrical gadrooned nozzles (restored through one side of base and branch to right of figure, restoration to some flowers, foliage, left hand and neck of instrument)
7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) high
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