George II Antique Silver Candlesticks by Charles Kandler

Description

An important pair of early English antique silver candlesticks by the sought after maker Charles Kandler. Very fine quality and made of heavy gauge cast silver. In the French taste, each with a knopped baluster stem on spreading circular base with sunken well and shaped outside border. These stunning candlesticks are beautifully chased all over and each bears an armorial crest within the sunken well.

Weight 1459 grams, 46.9 troy ounces.
Height 22cm. Base diagonal measurement 16.25cm.
London 1737.
Maker Charles Kandler.

Marks. The left hand stick, while certainly a pair, is unmarked. The right hand stick has a full set of marks under the base and a lion mark round the top of the candle holder.

Very good. The decoration of each, although definitely matching, has minor differences. The right hand stick has a slight distortion to the base resulting in a minor imbalance.

Maker: Charles Kandler

Charles Kandler (Carl Rudolph Kändler) b.1695, a German from Saxony. Charles was mentioned in 1710 as apprenticed to goldsmith Jacob Irminger in Dresden. He arrived in London in 1727 and entered his first mark (New Standard and Sterling) that same year in partnership with James Murray. Murray died within a few months and Kandler registered new marks - New Standard (KA with a mitre above) and Sterling (CK with a pellet or mullet below in a shaped shield). He also used an unregistered mark (CK with a mitre above). Kandler’s early work shows a unique style, decidedly German in form. From 1730 he worked for the goldsmith and banker Henry Jernagan (Jerningham) in Russell Street, Covent Garden. The identity of this highly important maker was a mystery until recent research showed him to be the elder brother of Johann Joachim Kandler, the prized porcelain modeller at the Meissen factory, with whom he shared many similarities of style. Charles returned to Germany, probably because his father was not well. His younger brother Charles Friedrich Kändler (1712–1778) took over the business in London in September 1735 with a fresh set of sterling and new standard marks. A subsequent mark was entered in 1739. Charles Kandler left a legend of outstanding works amongst which are the great wine cooler in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and the remarkable kettle in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Ref: Thomas Joski (6th great grandnephew) and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rudolph_K%C3%A4ndler

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