Pair of four-arm candlesticks

porcelain, underglaze cobalt, gilding, minor losses of artistic decoration; height 47 cm,
base 16 x 16 cm; signed in underglaze cobalt (both): two vertical dashes crossed by a single diagonal line.
Germany, Sitzendorf, con. XIX c.
2-part candlesticks; stems with plastic group: seated barefoot, half-naked woman in tunic, supporting half-naked child standing on her lap, embracing plastic floral stem topped with candle sleeve; 4-part bases with plastic decoration of rocaille-shell slats and trails of flowers. Into the sleeve crowning the stem inserted tri-partite upper part with a metal keystone, with sigmoidal floral arms with candle holder and leafy profitki, with a fourth higher arm in the middle. Painted in cobalt blue (shanks with figures, bases, arms). The candlesticks relate in form and decoration to Meissen wares and from the manufactory in Plaue.