A very rare set of four Meissen playing card candlesticks, dated 1876The suit supported on neoclassical plinths picked out in gold against the pale green ground, the nozzles flanked by scrolled handles applied with a human mask at the lower terminals, finely painted with three playing cards from the relevant suite, the reverse with a gilded crests, each 18.5cm high, rare impressed L mark for Leuteritz with date 1876 within a rectangle, 'Ausschliesslich angefertigt für S. Litchfield in London' in black script to the Spade, (small chips) (4)注脚Samuel Litchfield ran 'The Dresden Gallery' in Oxford Street, London, a retail shop selling imported porcelain and luxury goods including an extensive range of Meissen porcelain. In the 1880s Litchfields were London's leading retailer of Meissen and Dresden porcelain.