Arts & Crafts, Ignatius Taschner pricket brass candle holder c.1910.

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For sale from W&W Antiques is a beautiful example of a German Arts & Crafts / late Jugendstil / Art Nouveau brass candle stick holder c. 1905-1910, designed by Ignatius Taschner (1871-1913).

- The candle holder has a segmented jugendstil design with patternation to each rasied section, providing symmetry. The sections are interspersed with simple, curving linear art nouveau naturalistic designs.
- The candle holder is crafted in three distinct sections of body pulled together by the candle pricket and bolt through the centre.
- Taschner was a German sculptor, medalist, graphic designer and illustrator.
- He studied from 1889 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. In 1903 Taschner became a lecturer at the Royal Arts and Crafts School in Breslau (now Wroclaw). By 1905 he had established a studio in Berlin, where he worked mainly as an architectural sculptor for new buildings by Ludwig Hoffmann.
- This late Art Nouveau candlestick holder is a beautiful example of his stylistic work in the German Arts and Crafts.
- Stamp marked on the bottom with the Marabou / Stork brand, which was the artist's stork in a triangle / monogram and GES. GESCH. (registered trademark, protected by law).

A beautiful simple, jugendstil design, brass candle holder with strong design and ecclesiastical feel.

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