Candelstick for Elector Friedrich August III of SaxonySilver.
Round profiled base with a central depression;
the baluster stem with cylindrical nozzle.
Engraved monogram FA on the underside,
Marks: BZ Dresden, (1741 – 73, Rosenberg No. 1675, 1806),
Master: Carl David Schrödel,H 15.3 cm, Weight 261 g.
The pair of candelsticks come from one of the six silver services that O’Byrn recorded in the inventory of the Dresden Court Silver Chamber until 1880. On page 148 of his records, he mentions “124 smoothly fashioned play candelstck marked (FA), with the monogram C.D.S.”
A set of twelve is now part of the collection of the Green Vault in Dresden.Provenance: Belgian private collection.See Ulli Arnold, Dresden Court Silver of the 18th Century, Berlin/Dresden 1994, p. 38 ff. with illustrations of the engraved monogram (here with a court hat) and the weight specifications and inventory numbers.
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