Swan candelabrum (one of a pair) swan, ca. 1745-50; gilt-bronze mount, ca. 1750 Meissen Manufactory In eighteenth-century France, luxury merchants known as marchand-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 Swan candelabrum (one of a pair). German, Meissen with French mount. swan, ca. 1745-50; gilt-bronze mount, ca. 1750. Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mount. Ceramics-Porcelain

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