A rare Ottoman bronze candlestick - image-1

Lot 1736 Dα

A rare Ottoman bronze candlestick

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.750 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Ottoman bronze candlestick

Heavy golden brown cast bronze with fine natural patina. Bell-shaped base supporting a moulded shaft and broad drip pan. With a c. 6 cm long repair to the edge of the nozzle, minor dents and scratches. H 35.8 cm.
Presumably Turkey, 15th / 16th C.

We would like to thank Dr. Verena Daiber (Curator of the Bumiller Art Foundation, Bamberg, scholar of Islamic art history and Arabic studies) for her kind support in cataloguing this lot.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

A similar candlestick with a nozzle formed as a stylised flowerhead housed in the British Museum London, mus.no. 1993,0728.1.