A Pair of incredibly Rare 16th Century Silver-gilt Mounted Carved Amber Pricket Candlesticks
A Pair of incredibly Rare 16th Century Silver-gilt Mounted Carved Amber Pricket Candlesticks
Probably Konigsberg
Circa 1595
Maker’s mark ?. S
Height: 29cm, 11.4 in
These extraordinary candlesticks rest on three cup feet with scrolled bracket-mounts supporting their circular lobed bases. The bases in turn with a cross-hatched crenulated band. The stems turned with elongated lobed flutes separate in the middle by a globe-shaped knop. The capitals formed in amber with a silver-gilt crenulated band supporting a disc with a silver-gilt pricket to the centre.
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