Swan candelabrum (one of a pair)
In eighteenth-century France, luxury merchants known as marchands-merciers combined expensive porcelain from Meissen with French gilt-bronze mounts to create distinctive forms of opulence, seen in this extravagant pair of candelabra featuring swans floating amidst flowering branches of gilt bronze.
Artwork Details
- Title: Swan candelabrum (one of a pair)
- Manufactory: Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)
- Modeler: Attributed to Johann Joachim Kändler (German, Fischbach 1706–1775 Meissen)
- Date: swan, ca. 1745–50; gilt-bronze mount, ca. 1750
- Culture: German, Meissen with French mount
- Medium: Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mount
- Dimensions: 23 × 16 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (58.4 × 41.9 × 26 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.283.53
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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Meissen Manufactory
Johann Joachim Kändler
swan, ca. 1745–50; gilt-bronze mount, ca. 1750
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