Swan candelabrum (one of a pair)

Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German
 Attributed to Johann Joachim Kändler German

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 631

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.

Swan candelabrum (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mount, German, Meissen with French mount

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Swan candelabrum (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mount, German, Meissen with French mount
Swan candelabrum (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mount, German, Meissen with French mount
Swan candelabrum (one of a pair), Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present), Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mount, German, Meissen with French mount

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