An unusual late 16th/early 17th century brass and bronze socket candlestick, French, circa 1600


The shaft of brass, and topped by a moulded socket pierced with a pair of arched apertures each beneath a further small circular aperture, above a baluster and a discoid knop, a further gadrooned knop below, on a spreading circular bronze base, 16cm base diameter x approximately 26cm high
|The base and the shaft of this unusual candlestick were probably cast at different times, although both are contemporaneous.