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Werner & Mieth, Berlin

Active 1791 – 1819

Pair of bronze candle-holders, with boy figures, on milk-glass bases. Between 1795–1812

Bronze, burnished and gilt; milk-glass; marble; hanging glass decoration. Each 58,5 cm (23 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Werner & Mieth, Berlin. Pair of bronze candle-holders, with boy figures, on milk-glass bases. Between 1795–1812.

Estimate:

EUR 5,000

 

- 7,000

USD 5,690

 

- 7,960

Sold for:

13,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 02.06.2016

Information

Bronze, burnished and gilt; milk-glass; marble; hanging glass decoration. Each 58,5 cm (23 in.). Catalogue raisonné: Will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the works of the manufacture Werner & Mieth by Birgit Kropmanns.

Related literature: Winfried Baer: Karl Friedrich Schinkels centrepiece-designs in the frame ihrer European Konkurrenz and his Zusammenwirken with the Bronzefabrik Werner and Mieth resp. Werner & nephew in Berlin; in: Jahrbuch the Berlin Museen, vol. 47 (2005), p. 160-192. We would like to thank Frank C. Möller, Hamburg, for kindly providing additional information zur Geschichte of the Flußglases, the er wiederentdeckte, first erforschte and publish will be..

Provenance: 2013 Art dealer Dr. Tatzel, Baden-Baden / Private collection, Northern Germany

Auction catalogue: Sammlungsauflösung der ehemaligen Kunsthandlung Dr. Tatzel, Baden-Baden, Nagel, Stuttgart, 6. June 2013, Los 316

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