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Lot 229: f - Het licht gedragen door de liefde, a pair of grès sculptural candlesticks modelled by Joseph Mendes da Costa 1901

Est: €15,000 EUR - €20,000 EUR
Sotheby'sAmsterdam, NetherlandsFebruary 05, 2008

Item Overview

Description

modelled with a man and woman kissing, their right arms around each other's waist, their left arms raised to hold up the candle (the title meaning 'the light carried by love'). Reddish-brown stoneware with salt glaze both with inscribed monogram, one dated

Dimensions

height 23 / 23, 4 cm, one restored

Literature

Leidelmeijer & Van der Cingel, 1983, p. 82, fig. 78 (actual pieces); De Miranda, 1978, p. 81

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