# Kandelaar

- By: Francois Marcus Simons (The Hague, 1750–1828)
- Date: 1803
- Medium: silver (metal)
- Classification: candlestick
- Dimensions: height 28.7 cm x width 11.3 cm x length 16.3 g x weight 513 g
- Credit line: W.S. Burger Bequest, Antwerp
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-14588-C--946809950e1dfa38ce78b74e0320bf51)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/ZQmaj/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Dinner service. Silver, parcel gilt. The Hague, 1803 and 1804, by François Simons. The Government of the Batavian Republic presented this service to I.J.A. Gogel (1765 - 1821) in 1804 in recognition of his financial services to the country. Gogel was a prominent patriot, minister of finance under King Louis Napoleon and subsequently financial advisor to King