NORTH WEST EUROPE, THIRD OR FOURTH QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

This pair of 'cluster column' silvered brass candlesticks relates closely to contemporary silver types. (See, for example, a nearly identical silver example, made by Pierre Massé in Paris in 1675, in Wills 1974, loc. cit). Similar examples were made throughout Europe, and were generally influenced by the output of French Huguenot silversmiths fleeing religious persecution in France. The construction of the present pair also implies manufacture by a silversmith.