A Berlin silver candlestick
On a square base with chamferred angles and central indentation supporting a baluster-form shaft. Height 15 cm, weight 220 g.
Berlin, marks of Johann Ludwig Mahler, c. 1740.
This design corresponds to the dinner service of Frederick II made by Christian Lieberkühn.
See catalogue Kaiserliches Gold und Silber, Schätze der Hohenzollern aus dem Schloß Huis Doorn, Berlin 1985, p. 73f., catalogue no. 56, and catalogue Kronschatz und Silberkammer der Hohenzollern, Berlin/Munich 2010, catalogue no. 30.
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Berlin Silver candlestick, design dinner Service Friedrich II