A Pair of Figural Candlesticks with Paracelsus and Diogenes, Meissen, c. 1765

porcelain, on dynamically modelled rocaille bases, with rising branches and flowering tendrils supporting nozzles in the form of flower calyxes, one base with the contemplative natural philosopher beside a furnace and round-bottomed flask, examining a purse containing loose gold coins, the other with the Greek philosopher beside his barrel, holding a lantern, height 30 cm, model nos. 986 and 945, designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler and assistants in 1748, underglaze-blue crossed-swords marks to the undersides, applied flowers and nozzles restored, (Hr)

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