A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE MARBLED CANDLESTICK, after a Dutch or English silverwork example, the nozzle with protruding drip-border, above a ribbed square column with beaded and scrolled vertical bands, with a trompe-l'oeuil ring, on protruding square sloping base, above a large square spreading foot with a gadrooned border (the foot restored), late 17th Century

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A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE MARBLED CANDLESTICK, after a Dutch or English silverwork example, the nozzle with protruding drip-border, above a ribbed square column with beaded and scrolled vertical bands, with a trompe-l'oeuil ring, on protruding square sloping base, above a large square spreading foot with a gadrooned border (the foot restored), late 17th Century
20.5 cm high

Lot Essay

cf. J. de Bree, Zeeuws Zilver, p. 212 for an illustration of a silver candlestick (1693) in the same style

Catalogue Gemeentemuseum 's Gravenhage, 1958, Gleyersgoet en Delfts blauw, ill. 8 for a similar candlestick

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