Swan candelabrum (one of a pair)
Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German
Attributed to Johann Joachim Kändler German
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.
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