A BRASS CANDLESTICK

OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1500

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A BRASS CANDLESTICK
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1500
Of typical form, the socket worked as a budding tulip
12 3/8in. (31.5cm;) high

Lot Essay

An almost identical candlestick with an inscription dated AH 905/1499-1500 is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.2002.1.12; Linda Komaroff, Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2016).

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