A GOOD AND LARGE BRASS HEEMSKERK CANDLESTICK

A GOOD AND LARGE BRASS HEEMSKERK CANDLESTICK

C.1525-50

two part casting, peaned then turned, having a bold slightly flared socket with a pair of rectangular extraction holes, on a single discoid knop stem above a broad and deeply dished drip-pan, a ribbed base with discoid knop and spreading circular ribbed base, the lead weight to the underside removed

21.8cm high

Provenance

Reputedly from a Cornish shipwreck, purchased Falmouth, Cornwall, c.1980. A very similar example sold Bonhams, Edinburgh, 13th September 2021, lot 7 (£3,750).

Catalogue Note

See also Christie's, The Lear Collection, King Street, London, 15th December 1998, lot 64.

Literature

R. F. Michaelis, 'Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks', p.74, fig. 96; Schiffer, 'The Brass Book', p. 154, fig. A. and Art Du Laiton Dinanderie c.1525-1550, p.175.