Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin KPM Lot n° 298

Pair of ceremonial girandoles with soft painting Porcelain, colored overglaze decoration, gilding, fire-gilt bronze. Model 3157, five-flame candlestick with eaves bowls and bronze tendril arms on four vegetal acanthus feet. Fired in several parts and screwed/plugged. Twisted rococo form with applied sculptural leaves and flowers, also finely painted with small bouquets of flowers in typical polychrome. Blue sceptre and W (?) mark, red imperial orb mark, impressed marks 157, V and V, enamel 72. Chips and retouches, several eaves bowls restored. H 61 cm. Berlin, KPM, the model from 1885, after a rococo model from 1769, the form before 1900. Provenance South German private collection. Literature A comparable pair of candlesticks illustrated in Dietz, Blühende Zeit der KPM, Die Weichmalerei auf Berliner Porzellan, Petersberg 2013, no. L3 and L4, p. 254 f.