The separately attached curved branches with rocaille decor issuing from a baluster-form shaft. Hermann Neupert II came from a family of goldsmiths based in Norden/East Frisia - and worked in Berlin from about 1762 to 1773, where Frederick II entrusted him with extensive commissions for the Prussian royal court. The present candelabrum resembles a set of candlesticks commissioned around 1764, which is now housed in Huis Doorn in the Netherlands. "Until the end of his long professional life, Neupert persistently adhered to the Rococo style he learned and mastered in Berlin." (Cat. Norder Silber, Norden 1997, p. 20). His elegant works can be found today, for example, in the Oldenburg State Museum or in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.来源: Provenance Lempertz auction 1047, lot 56, 2nd May 2015; private collection, Rhienland.