Lot 61: A RARE HÖCHST FIGURAL CANDELABRUM CIRCA 1753

SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
gilt wheel mark

modelled by Simon Feilner, as a shepherd embracing a shepherdess, each holding with one hand onto a puce and gilt-edged rococo candlestick terminating with a gilt-edged foliate sconce and drip-tray, with leafy branches issuing from the base of each rocaille, the shepherd wearing a green jacket, puce breeches and a satchel to his left side, his companion wearing a straw hat, puce-edged bodice, yellow skirt and gilt-edged apron with puce flowers, a goat, sheep and dog at their feet, the base modelled with elaborate scrollwork edged in puce and gilding and painted with grass patches and applied with leaves and flowers

26cm., 10 1/4 in.

Other examples of this candlestick group - known as the Kußleuchter or "Kiss Candlestick" - are in the Pauls Collection, Basel (published by P.W. Meister, Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, vol.I, pp.40f.) and illustrated by P. Stahl, Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796, p.171. The model was so popular in the 18th century that Feilner later recreated it at the Fürstenberg manufactory.