Rare Pair of Early Trumpet Base Brass Candlesticks, England Date/Period: Circa 1675
Measurement: Height: 7.5"; base diameter: 5.75"
Material: Brass
Condition: Two minor repairs to base of one stick, perhaps casting flaws…they do not
distract and are not visible unless you know where to look…and examine closely, all
else fine.
Additional Information: The ribbed stems having upswept drip pans flaring as they
continue to the domed circular base featuring flattened rim.
$7,500.00
843-335
Queen Anne Candlestick Date/Period: 18th Century
Measurement: Height: 6.5”
Material: Brass (copper alloy)
Condition: Underside of base where joining shaft has been soldered; trivial
loss of brass…a tiny hole at seam as depicted; stick was well-used…displays well.
Additional Information: Unusual English eighteenth century so called "Queen
Anne" candlestick (though made later in the century than her reign). The socket
with an upward flare over a truncated top, above an inverted baluster, above a
knop, the shaft joined to an octagonal base in the usual way, the base a square
with cut corners. Typical two part shaft castings and cast base.
$210.00
621-136
Queen Anne Candlestick Date/Period: 18th century
Measurement: Height: 8.5"
Material: Brass
Condition: Worn from repeated polishing, else fine, displays well
Additional Information: Single stick, lovely socket, seamed stem and base.
$295.00
621-140
14th or Early 15th Century, Large Castellated Candlestick, Dutch or German Date/Period: 14th or 15th Century
Measurement: Height: 11"; height at pricket: 14.25"; base diameter: 6"
Material: Copper Alloy, brass or bronze pricket
Condition: Excellent, knop centers tiny oval and rectangular patches, very likely in the
Making; probably imperfection in-the-pour [no distraction]. About mint.
Additional Information: Large pricket candlestick, Northwest European origin,
probably Dutch (or German) fourteenth or, more likely fifteenth century. Superb, large
design pricket candlestick probably made for domestic use as, according to Michaelis, “the church candlesticks had three feet, either lions or flattened balls*. There are three
potential supports seen underneath from the original casting, but feet were never
applied to this candlestick. This large candlestick has a series of six small, canted cyma
curves cut into the superior aspect of the brass drip pan. These crenulations alternate
with six groups of four small, clustered apertures centered by punched dots in the lower
side of the drip pan. The drip pan surmounts the large shaft featuring two knops
continuing to a heavy robust inverted cup shaped base. Interestingly…the pricket
displays two groups in incised concentric rings.
*See Ronald Michaelis: Old Domestic Base Metal Candlesticks, Antique Collectors
Club, 1978, pages 33 and 34 and figure 15 and 16. See figures113 to 118 in the 1986
Rijksmuseum catalogue; Koper und Brons.
$16,800.00
843-350
Late 15th Century Near Pair of Gothic Candlesticks, Northwest Europe Date/Period: Late 15th C.
Measurement: Height: 9.5"; base diameter: 4.75"
Material: Copper Alloy
Condition: Very good
Additional Information: These Gothic candlesticks (assembled) from the late fifteenth
or early sixteenth century are of two-part construction and display the typical Gothic
socket with square aperture and the typical flat knop below, but now feature new
elements to the shaft. Below the knop is a long ringed baluster, another flat knop, and a
short baluster before the shaft terminates in a rudimentary ring and is joined to what
Michaelis calls a "hollow incurved conical base". (See Ronald Michaelis: Old Domestic
Base Metal Candlesticks, Antique Collectors Club, 1978 page 49-61; Chapter 5,
Candlesticks with Hollow Incurved Conical Bases – Group Two). Whether these
candlesticks temporally followed the more typical Gothic knopped candlesticks with high
skirt base, or whether they were a contemporary design variant is not known. This pair
of candlesticks is nearly identical with slight turning differences on the high skirt base
and, while the lowest shaft element on one has shallow ringing, the other is plain
(though it is possible that the ringing has been polished-out removed). For a related
example see figure 27 Christopher Bangs; The Lear Collection A Study of Copper Alloy
Socket Candlesticks A.D. 200 -1700.
$13,900
843-343
English Bunsen Burner Form Single Discoid Knop Medieval Candlestick Date/Period: 14th Century
Measurement: Height: 6.5"; base diameter: 4.375"
Material: Copper Alloy
Condition: Excellent, commensurate with age and use…no repairs
Additional Information: A very rare English single blade candlestick of the "Bunsen
burner" form- 15th century. This is the first acknowledged English design/manufactured
candlestick. The base of the shaft is encased by a short sleeve, inside the circular base
with banded decoration, and is peened and turned. This candlestick differs slightly from
other known examples, a variation of the form, each known example having subtle
design differences; all have a single blade mid shaft, the low base, and the barrel
shaped, unpierced socket. This stick displays very pleasing surface showing centuries
of gentle wear.
$12,450.00
843-437
Brass Candlestick, Mid Drip, Bell Base, Northern European Date/Period: 17th Century
Measurement: Height: 6.75"; base diameter: 5.25"
Material: Copper alloy
Condition: Excellent
Additional Information: Heavy brass stick cast in two sections; nozzle with ejection
aperture…baluster stem continuing to domed-mid-drip-pan raised on bell-shape base.
Additional Information: A closely related pair is published on page 160, catalog
number 148 of The English Candlestick 1425 – 1925 by Eloy Koldeweij.
$885.00
1008-92
Candlesticks, Queen Anne Pushups, Maker Signed: Joseph Wood
Birmingham, England, (Active 1736-1749) Date/Period: 1720-1740
Measurement: Height: 9"; base: 4.5" x 4.5"
Material: Brass
Condition: Fine original condition
Additional Information: A fine and rare pair of matching exceptional petal base
candlesticks featuring scalloped everted rims, knopped stems, petal bases. Each stick
displays maker’s name impressed in semicircle on the underside of base. Turning the
shaft facilitates candle ejectors traveling up or down.
Interesting Note: The Brass Book, by Schiffer, page 194-B, states: "Most candlesticks
are not signed to prevent the storekeeper from going around the wholesaler directly to
the brass founder. The signature makes it possible to trace other sticks to a particular
foundry."
$2,600.00
1008-94
15th or 16th Century Heemskerk Candlestick, Dutch, Earliest Form Date/Period: Late fifteenth/early sixteenth century
Measurement: Height: 9.25"; base diameter: 4.75"
Material: Copper alloy
Condition: Excellent, commensurate with age and use
Additional Information: Large earliest type with typical Gothic socket having square
aperture, the shaft with flattened knop on shaft above a mid-drip pan. The larger
diameter shaft below drip pan, also with a larger flattened knop flares as it continues to
the trumpet base. This is a rare version of the first/earliest form of the Heemskerk
candlestick group as-it-is-of four parts rather than the usual two-part construction. Also,
the proportions are slightly different and there is no ringing on the lower shaft and foot
as is typical. All original with some later peening where the shaft enters the base, done
to tighten these elements.
Condition: Excellent condition [typical dings] The sockets originally
featured a round aperture on one side facilitating wax removal, a little later in the
sticks early working life the piercing was enlarged making wax removal
easier…a common practice.
Additional Information: Matching pair…The design originated in Spain,
and it is thought that other countries, especially Holland, adopted the form. The
Dutch candlesticks are of better quality than those made in Spain. A still life by
Hendrick Andriessen who died in 1655 shows a related candlestick and is shown on
page 105 in Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks by Ronald F. Michaelis. This pair
of candlesticks appears to be a later version of the one in the painting.
The candlesticks have a broad, hollow base with a shallow depression on the upper
aspect to catch the candle grease as it dripped. The broad base affords a
stability to the candlestick, and some have suggested that this was important on
ships, though the form was not made specifically for shipboard use. The shaft is
one of the typical forms with a ring above a baluster, above a large downward
tapering barrel form. This is a two-part casting, shaft, and base, joined by screw.
$2,300.00
327-26
Copper Alloy Gothic Candlestick
Five Discoid Knop Form
North West Europe
15th Century
The long flaring socket having rounded molding at rim is pierced with square extracting aperture above shaft with five interspaced ring turned discoid knops above base featuring a stepped cone within waisted, integral drip base-tray above a flaring skirt. (Dimensions: H: 10.75")
$7,750
843-91
Gothic Four-Knop High-Skirt Candle Stick
Circa 1480
This stick is 10 3/8-inches in height and was excavated; probably lost soon after it was made based on crispness. Notice the tapering between each discoid; aperture was finished by a competent tradesman. Mint condition except for losses to drip-pan.
$6,995
843-7
Earliest Type of Heemskerk Candlestick, Ringed Trumpet-shaped Base, Dutch Date/Period: Circa 1475 to 1525
Measurement: Height: 7.75"; base diameter: 3.75"
Material: Copper Alloy
Condition: Very good, appropriate to age and use; ancient flat spot to upper flattened
Knop. All original.
Additional Information: The earliest Heemskerk form candlestick; late fifteenth/early
sixteenth century having typical Gothic socket with square aperture and flattened knop
on shaft above the deeply cupped mid-drip pan characteristic of this early group. The
ringed shaft beneath the dip pan continues to a flattened knop above the ringed lower
shaft, trumpet base and foot. This is the typical version of the first form of the Dutch
Heemskerk candlestick with the usual two-part construction. While typical, it is a rare
form. This example displays perfect proportions. All original
$6,950.00
843-347
16th Century Heemskerk Candlestick, Probably Dutch Date/Period: Circa 1520-1600
Measurement: Height: 7.75"; base diameter: 3.5"
Material: Copper alloy
Condition: Very good, flat spot [.75-inch] to rim of base as depicted
Additional Information: Heemskerk candlestick, probably Dutch manufacture, c. 1520-
1600. The typical Gothic socket now having a circular aperture, (transition from the
square aperture in the early sixteenth century). The Gothic flat knop has been replaced
with a rudimentary ring over a baluster. There is the typical deep mid drip pan above the
tinged trumpet shaped base, unchanged from the earlier first Heemskerk form. Two-part
construction.
$6,100
843-348
Gothic Pricket Candlestick, Crenellated Drip Pan, Lion-form Feet
Northwest Europe, Probably German or Flemish Origin Date/Period: Late 15th - early 16th century
Measurement: Height: 11.25", 6.75” maximum base diameter
Material: Copper alloy
Condition: Good condition commensurate with age and use. The join of one lion foot
was long ago reinforced with solder…likely during its early working life. The pricket is
missing its tip and has been repaired near base. This special stick saw frequent use.
Additional Information: A robust pricket candlestick having a drip pan with crenellated
edge; the lower section featuring four clusters of five small piercings on a tapered
turned shaft with conforming piercings near the base of the shaft, supported by three
cast seated lion figures. This is a typical Gothic pricket candlestick of a substantial early
form. The decorative piercings are associated with these early interesting models. The
rarely encountered lion supports [feet] make this candlestick very special. This Gothic
pricket candlestick is related to Figure 15 in Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks
by Ronald F. Michaelis, published in 1978 by Antique Collectors' Club.
$5,650.00
843-443
15th Century Dutch Pricket Candlestick, Robust & Successful Castellated Form Date/Period: 15th Century
Measurement: Height: 5.5"; height at pricket: 7.75"; base diameter: 3"
Material: Copper alloy, iron pricket
Condition: Excellent original condition
Additional Information: Small pricket candlestick with an iron pricket, otherwise brass;
crenelated upper aspect of the drip pan, which is pierced with a series of three small,
clustered apertures. This above a short shaft with a flattened disc that transitions into a
complex high base that steps out as it descends. The base features a large, flattened
disc above a vertical segment with clusters of three small, round piercings, as seen on
the lower aspect of the drip pan…then flares to a solid foot. See Koper und Brons,
(Rijksmuseum Collection), pp. 89 – 90, figures 115 to117 for related yet less successful
examples.
$5,150.00
843-342
Late 15th Century Candlestick, Franco-Flemish Date/Period: Late 15th to Early 16th Century
Measurement: Height: 9.25"; base diameter: 5.75"
Material: Copper Alloy
Condition: In very good condition with one, small very old linear repair on the edge of
the base.
Additional Information: Franco-Flemish candlestick with typical Gothic socket with
rectangular aperture. The shaft having two long ringed balusters centered by three
discoid knops continues to the low skirt ringed base. See Christopher Bangs; The Lear
Collection A Study of Copper Alloy Socket Candlesticks A.D. 200 -1700, pages 74 to
78; figures 33 to 39 for related candlesticks.
$4,300.00
843-353
Antique Brass, Copper Alloy Candlestick, Probably France, 16th or 17th Century
A robust and heavy form displaying beautiful old patina, the pierced nozzle above pronounced belted
knop, reel turnings; the graceful drip tray is in harmony with the base. The underside of lathe finished
base shows coarse tool marks. Other than a very old soldered repair to base, the stick remains in
excellent original condition. (6.25" x 4.75")
$3,950.00
925-37
Antique Pair of 17th Century Spanish Ecclesiastical, Candlesticks, Brass
Condition: Aggressively polished over-the-centuries; very old repair to nozzle; about
1-inch of base rim missing…doesn’t distract. Displays well.
Additional Information: Gothic socket with rectangular ejection aperture on a solid
stem featuring two teardrop/conical devices centered by three-disc knops, domed, and
dished low skirt base.
$3,350.00
1008-82
Sixteenth Century Socket Candlestick, High Integral-Drip Base Form
Northwest Europe, Probably Flemish/Netherlandish Origin Date/Period: Circa 1500
Measurement: Height: 9.25"; base diameter: 4.5"
Material: Copper Alloy
Condition: Very good; the tang joining two parts has been revised…it is domed. Most
always the shaft and base are joined by a tang extending from the shaft piercing top
center of the base…then peened and turned. The subject tang extends through the
piercing, the turning is rounded rather than being turned flat and lacks turning marks.
Additional Information: The unusual shaft with three knops, above a circular two stage
spreading, typical Gothic base, domed at center.
$3,050.00
843-436
Antique Candlestick, Copper Alloy, Traveling Size, Gothic,
Europe,
Circa 1550 to 1650
The pierced and molded socket above the shaft with central discoid knop
Above a shallow circular base; the shaft peened within underside which is lathe finished. (Dimensions: 3.75" H.)
$2,835
843-116
Candlesticks, A Fine Matched Pair of Copper Alloy, Low Bell Base Sticks
Spanish, circa 1680-1730
Beautifully cast stems, robust nozzle, belted knops and wafers featuring fine serrations. Solid cast stems (core pins) on incised low-dome base resting on angulated circular foot displaying incised conforming detail. (Fine condition; height: 9.25", base diameter: 6.5")
$2,825.00
492-203
17th Century Dutch Heemskerk Candlestick of Very Successful Form Date/Period: Second Half of 17th Century
Measurement: Height: 7.25"; base diameter: 3.25"
Material: Copper Alloy
Condition: Superb condition
Additional Information: Small seventeenth century Heemskerk candlestick of great
form. Heavy socket with slight upward flare, pierced with a small circular aperture over a
shaft with rudimentary ring above and below a suppressed ball, mid drip pan,
over the lower shaft which echoes the upper shaft yet displaying larger and bolder
elements. This on a domed base with flared lower collar. All original, with
probably recent soft solder applied to underside of base as often done to tighten shaft.
This candlestick is of superior design and relatively small size for the late Heemskerk
form. See Koper und Brons, (Rijksmuseum Collection) page 108 for two related but less
successful examples.
$1,800.00
843-349
Brass Tavern Candlestick with Bell, England, 19th Century
(H: 12.5”, base: 6”)
$1,185
691-23
Antique Tavern Candlestick with Bell, Brass, England, 19th Century
(H: 12.5”, base: 6”)
$1,175
691-22
Antique Copper Alloy Candlestick, 16th/17th Century
French, late 16th to early 17th century
Robust nozzle with ejection aperture above tapering shaft continuing to the shallow
circular base; cast in two sections. Crusty patina…underside of shaft where peened was
recently soldered to tighten. (Height: 8"; base diameter: 4.75")
$950.00
1301-6
Seventeenth Century Trifid Foot Pricket Candlestick, Great Patina
Likely Spanish Date/Period: Circa 1740-1760
Measurement: Height: 15"
Material: Bronze
Condition: Fine
Additional Information: Heavy weight, very stylish and reasonably priced!
$785.00
660-46
Pulpit Candlestick, Brass, Tall and Elegant, Slide Ejector, Trefoil Thumbpiece
English, 18th Century
Cast in three sections, tall stem on round base…very attractive
Height: 12”
$485.00
365-328
Period Brass Candlesticks, Lot of Five Date/Period: 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Measurement: Pictured heigh left to right: 6.5"; 7"; 10.25"; 7"; 5.5"
Material: Brass
Condition: Second from left has a tear under bobeche
Additional Information: Sold as a lot, a nice push-up stick, two Queen Anne sticks, a
very nice stick on saucer base; mid-drip on tripod base.
$395.00 the lot!
110-1005
Early 18th Century Brass Candlestick, Faceted Nozzle, Solid Cast Stem, Pricket Hole
(The socket is lined with iron; height: 6.75"; base diameter: 3.75")
$395.00
365-339
French Louis XIV Brass Candlestick, Baluster Form Stem, Domed Octagonal Base
H: 7.5": base: 3.75"
$240
1012-74
French Louis XIV Brass Candlestick,
Baluster Form Stem, Domed Octagonal Base,
H: 6.5"
$240
1012-68
French Louis XIV Brass Candlestick, Baluster Form Stem, Domed Octagonal Base
H: 7.75"; base: 3.875"
$235
1012-71
French Louis XIV Brass Candlestick, Baluster Form Stem, Domed Octagonal Base
H: 7.5"; base: 3.5"
$335
1012-73
Chamber Pushup Candlestick, Dousing Cone, Scissor Trimmer Snuffer
Late 18th to Early 19th Century
Probably England
An attractive three piece set in fine condition
(H: 5"; W: 8"; D: 7.5")
$325
1012-37
French Louis XIV Brass Candlestick,
Baluster Form Stem, Domed Octagonal Base,
H: 6.5”
$225
1012-70
French Louis XIV Brass Candlestick, Baluster Form Stem, Domed Octagonal Base
H: 6.75"; base: 3.75"
$210
1012-69
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