Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A RARE HENRI II BRASS MINIATURE CANDLESTICK

FRENCH, C.1550

having a flared and single reeded socket, a flat square knop and entasis column stem, on a dished circular base with raised foot rim

11.7cm high

Literature

See R. F. Michaelis, 'Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks', p. 45, see fig.38, and Bonhams, Oxford, 1st October 2014, Lot 367, for comparable candlesticks.

Exhibited

Keith Pinn, Essex, December 1981, no. 7.