TWO DUTCH SILVER CANDLESTICKS
Michiel Menningh, Den Haag, 1720
813 grams 18.5 cm high
The Louis XIV candlesticks are raised on stepped square bases with cut corners. The baluster stems rise from a shallow roundel and are facetted above the facetted knob. The spool sconces are applied with a small plain central band .
Both candlesticks are engraved on the reverse of the foot with the initials P/ H & M.
Both candlesticks are fully marked, the one on the exterior of the foot rim, the other at the corners of the interior of the foot. Both candlesticks display assay stripes at the reverse of the foot.
The silversmith Michiel Menningh was born on 24 August 1687, as son of the Hague gold and silversmith Cornelis Menningh (1665-1738) and his wife Maria Maagdenbergh. According to his short biography Michiel married Geertrui van den Toorn on 21 April 1715. She was the daughter of the Hague silversmith Johannes van den Toorn, a fellow Guild member of Cornelis Menningh. Michiel Menningh was registered at the Guild on 14 December 1718.
Michiel Menningh was both a service worker and a flat worker, as can be concluded from his objects that have survived. A silver spoon (1721), a silver fork (1729), and a silver fish serving ladle (1723), are recorded in Haags goud en zilver. In E. Voet Jr (1941) flatware, a soup ladle and a candlestick, dated 1730, by Michiel Menningh are recorded. A pair of 1728 Rimonim from the Sephardic Synagogue are in the collection of the Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam. A silver tobacco box, made by Michiel Menningh in 1724, engraved with the coat-of -arms of the PRINS family and the mirror monogram JP on the reverse, is in our collection.
