Pair of Candlesticks, Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Each candlestick is composed of a round white column on a square plinth, and with a capital of four female heads with draped head-dresses in nature colors, under white and gold Ionic scrolls. Wreath of light green oak leaves bound with lavender-pink ribbons forms the base of column, and plinth has a border on its vertical face of flutings of the same color and gold band. Scrolls contain light green rosettes, with the same fluting motif in place of dentils

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