CANDLE HOLDER

A cast and turned copper alloy candle stick dating to the Post-Medieval period. The object are almost complete consisting of the stick the socket and the base. The object is circular in cross-section.

The centre of the stick is decorated with a circular collar. The stick is of even thickness along its length. The stick measures 6.13mm in diameter and 10.26mm at the collar. At the top the stick expands out into the socket with a distinct carination between the expansion and sides of the socket. The outer face of the socket is decorated with circumferential ridged mouldings. It measures 18.73mm in diameter. The socket is 25.24mm in depth. At each side of the socket is a rectangular opening.

At the base of the stick the object flares outwards to form the base which is integral to the stick. The base measures 33.53mm in diameter and is decorated with three circumferential bands. The stem of the object is solid and the base hollow. The object has a dark grey patina.

A candlestick of similar design is illustrated by Brownsword and dated late fifteenth/sixteenth centuries (Brownsword 1985, 'English Latten Domestic Candlesticks 1400-1700'. no. 7). A similar, but larger, candle-holder cast in one piece is in the Lear collection (Bangs 1995, no. 16). It has a different base but a very similar single-knopped stem and socket, and is though to be either of Nuremberg or Low Countries manufacture.