Lot 385
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A TIMURID PIERCED TINNED COPPER CANDLESTICK the waisted conical base with angled and flat shoulder, a recurved boss below the cylindrical neck and waisted cylindrical mouth, the body pierced and engraved with a broad band of interlaced split palmettes, a narrow band of meandering leafy vine on a cross-hatched ground below, the shoulder with a band of knotted interlace, the neck engraved with panels of leafy vine divided by vertical stripes, the mouth with similar swirling panels, 15th century (tinning blackened)

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A TIMURID PIERCED TINNED COPPER CANDLESTICK the waisted conical base with angled and flat shoulder, a recurved boss below the cylindrical neck and waisted cylindrical mouth, the body pierced and engraved with a broad band of interlaced split palmettes, a narrow band of meandering leafy vine on a cross-hatched ground below, the shoulder with a band of knotted interlace, the neck engraved with panels of leafy vine divided by vertical stripes, the mouth with similar swirling panels, 15th century (tinning blackened)
10¾in. (27.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

A very similar candlestick is in the Keir Collection (Fehérvári, G.: Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London 1976, no. 100, p.85 and pl.34a). That example is however made of bronze and has a pierced neck and mouth. It is dated to the 12th-13th centuries. While the material of the present example differs, the overall shape and in particular the pierced decoration of the body are very similar. The secondary decoration on our example with its engraved elongated arabesques on a cross-hatched ground is not possible in the mediaeval period. This feature, coupled with the material used, are typical of Persian metalwork of the 15th century.

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