A LARGE AND FINE BRASS CANDLESTICK

A LARGE AND FINE BRASS CANDLESTICK

DINANT, BELGIUM, C.1450-1500

having a bold tapered socket with paired rectangular extraction holes, on a paired discoid and addorsed baluster stem, on a domed and slightly dished base with splayed foot rim, a precisely engraved ownership or merchant's mark to the underside

31.1cm high

Literature

Illustrated in R. Butler, 'A Study Collection of Marked Domestic Brass and Other Base Metalware c.1600-c.1900', p.106, no.239. See also L'or des Dinandiers, Rue des Brasseurs, p.93, nos. 73, 76c & p.97.

Exhibited

Spink, London, 1974, no. 7.