A GERMAN BRASS BELL-BASE CANDLESTICK

A GERMAN BRASS BELL-BASE CANDLESTICK
MAKER MARKED, NUREMBERG, C.1590
the cast bulbous-knop stem topped by a relatively straight-sided candle socket, on a dished circular drip-pan with line decoration, the bell base of thin gauge also with decorative lines, stamped to the footrim with maker's mark of Georg Goetz, master in 1567

19cm high

Literature

See Hermann P. Lockner, ‘Die Merkzeichen der Nürnberger Rotschmiede’, no. 233 for maker’s mark.