Priced over £20,000.00

 A brass candelabrum, 1901.

Designed by Bruno Paul (1874-1968).

Made by K. M. Seifert & co, Dresden Löbtau.

Retailed by Vereinigte Werkstätten Für Kunst im Handwerk, München (1898-1991) 

(United Workshops for Art and Handicraft, Munich).

Provenance: German private collection until 2019.

70.5 cm diameter 40 cm high.

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The design of this candelabrum in 1901, marked the move away from stylised plant forms that characterised early Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) up to 1900, thus clearing the way for modernism and the 20th century.

The model frequently appeared in the catalogues of the United Workshops for Art and Handicraft between 1901 - 1907.

Comparable examples are in the collections of:

The Stadtmuseum Munich (acquired 1958)

The British Museum (acquired 1993)

Saint Louis Art Museum (acquired 1995) 

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (acquired 1998) 

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (acquired 2000) 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (acquired 2008)

Philadelphia Museum of Art (acquired 2016)