Lot 323
  • 323

A rare small Southern Netherlandish copper alloy pricket candlestick 13th century

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • 14cm. high, 12cm. diameter at feet; 5½in., 4¾in.
the dished drip tray centering a pricket contained within a hollow knopped stem on a circular base with three stylised paw feet, two replaced

Provenance

The Nils Tellander Collection;
Sculpture and Works of Art, these rooms, 29th March 1979, lot 44.

Condition

The drip tray mis-shapen and with tear and old repair. Pricket slightly bent. Traces of ochre and green paint. Of a pleasing size with good provenance.
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Catalogue Note

See Falke and Meyer, Bronzegeräte des Mittelalters, 1935, Abb. 182 for a related example in the Vleeschhuis, Antwerp.