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145 - CANDLESTICK FEATURING THE EVANGELISTS Made of a copper alloy…
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Estimate €1,000 - €2,000
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CANDLESTICK FEATURING THE EVANGELISTS Made of a copper alloy with traces of gilding, comprising three parts: base, shaft and finial. The base, square in cross-section, is richly openwork and adorned with seated figures, each holding an open book, which serve as uprights. The upper section, pyramid-shaped with four sides openworked with foliage motifs, is crowned by a crenellated parapet, at the corners of which are depicted the Four Living Creatures of the Tetramorph. At the centre of each side are dragons, their heads turned downwards. The shaft is decorated, beneath the finial and the long central spike, with a motif of stylised foliage reminiscent of palm leaves; it features a cluster comprising three seated female figures leaning against one another, their gazes cast downwards. Germanic work, 12th-century Romanesque style. Height: 16.2 cm excluding the spike – Average width of one side: 12.5 cm – Total height: 21.5 cm. (Signs of wear, casting defects, restorations) Bibliography: – Otto von Falke and Erich Meyer, *Romanische Leuchter und Gefässe, Giessgefässe der Gotik*, Berlin, 1935, pl. 24. Description: The base of our candleholder faithfully reproduces the design of a Romanesque candlestick, now lost, published by Otto von Falke and Erich Meyer in their reference work on Romanesque bronzes, *Romanische Leuchter und Gefässe*, *Giessgefässe der Gotik*, published in Berlin in 1935. The model is reproduced there under number 55 with the following caption: ‘Gipsabguss eines verschollenen Altarleuchters, früher in München’ (translation: Plaster cast of a lost altar candlestick, formerly in Munich). Its iconography belongs to the Germanic and Rhenish-Mosan Romanesque tradition, in which the altar candlestick is not merely a vessel for light, but a miniature representation of the sacred edifice: the Evangelists form its foundations, whilst the Four Living Creatures of the Tetramorph, placed at the corners of the upper register, anchor the object within a theological interpretation of light.
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Auction time 07/08/2026 at 2:00 PM
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