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16TH CENTURY
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A Netherlandish bronze 'driekoningen' candlestick
16th Century
Of typical form, with a pricket with threaded base, above a stem with two knops and a dished spreading and stepped base, lacking twin arms and with a crack to the base - 38cm. high; A matched pair of brass pricket candlesticks, in the late Gothic style, 19th Century, each with a large dished drip-pan centred by a pricket above a ring-turned shaft with three knops and a spreading base - 38.5cm. high; And a bronze candlestick, 15th Century and later, the later dished drip-pan with stepped rim centred by a pricket above the dished ring-turned spreading shaft with stepped spreading base with later rim and lion supports - 32cm. high (4)
16th Century
Of typical form, with a pricket with threaded base, above a stem with two knops and a dished spreading and stepped base, lacking twin arms and with a crack to the base - 38cm. high; A matched pair of brass pricket candlesticks, in the late Gothic style, 19th Century, each with a large dished drip-pan centred by a pricket above a ring-turned shaft with three knops and a spreading base - 38.5cm. high; And a bronze candlestick, 15th Century and later, the later dished drip-pan with stepped rim centred by a pricket above the dished ring-turned spreading shaft with stepped spreading base with later rim and lion supports - 32cm. high (4)
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