AN EXCEPTIONAL FIVE-KNOP BRASS CANDLESTICK

AN EXCEPTIONAL FIVE-KNOP BRASS CANDLESTICK

NORTH-WEST EUROPE, PROBABLY DINANT, BELGIUM, C.1450-1500

having a bold flared socket with paired rectangular extraction holes, the stem with five paired addorsed graduated discoid knops, two-stage base with a dome-centred dish over a capstan foot

30.8cm high

Catalogue Note

For a similar candlestick see Christie's, The Lear Collection, King Street, London, 15th December 1998, lot 24. See also Sotheby's, New York, William Du Pont Collection, 22nd June 2022, lot 22, ($17,640).

Literature

See H. P. Lockner, 'Messing', pp. 167-8, figs. 328, 329; J. Caspall, 'Fire & Light', p. 81, fig. 138.

Exhibited

'An Exhibition of Candlesticks', Spink, London, 1974, no.4. The catalogue refers to a Persian base.