A Late Gothic Brass Pricket Candlestick

A Late Gothic pricket candlestick cast in brass, formed with a hollow stepped circular foot rising to a cylindrical stem with a single moulded knop, supporting a broad integral wax-pan and tall conical pricket for an unshaped tallow candle. The foot is cast in sections and joined by brazing, the interior retaining a remarkable period repair: a hand-hammered copper-alloy patch secured with hard solder, a testament to the candlestick’s long domestic use in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
This profile, with its stepped trumpet base and simple knopped shaft, is characteristic of lighting equipment produced throughout the Burgundian Netherlands during the second half of the fifteenth century, and closely relates to examples recovered archaeologically in Bruges, Ghent and Utrecht, as well as to candlesticks depicted in contemporary Flemish manuscript illumination. The survival of the original pricket and its unaltered socket form is particularly rare, most extant examples having been drilled out for later candles.
Condition
Honest surface with expected wear and small working bruises. Period brazed repair to underside of foot, pricket original. A fully authentic and well-patinated late medieval lighting piece.