A BRASS PRICKET CANDLESTICK

A BRASS PRICKET CANDLESTICK

ATTRIBUTED TO NUREMBERG, C. 1600

having a brass pricket in a shallow drip-pan, on a baluster, ball and inverted bulbous-baluster stem, each baluster with iron core-pins, the triform base cast with winged angel heads together with foliate and punched decoration, a casting fault to one base side which appears never to have been rectified

31.5cm high

Literature

See Otto A. Baumgärtel, 'Glänzend Wie Gold' no. 13 for a similar example.