A Tiny 14th Century Gilt Bronze Pricket Travelling Candlestick

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A Tiny 14th Century Gilt Bronze Pricket Travelling CandlestickAn incredibly rare and remarkably tiny travelling Pricket Candlestick from the 14th Century. Created in bronze then gilded, etched and pieced with foliate decoration. This wonderful piece would have been used by a traveler of some means as this was an expensive and luxurious item in its day. We can imagine it on its journeys being used to light the darkness so its owner could read books and manuscripts and write letters by its flickering light. We can

The mercury glass is now delicately foxed

Made of cellulose infused fibre cement

When running

Imagine them hung at each side of a fireplace or on the walls of your Orangery

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an empty shotgun cartridge and the Parisian owners business card with the name and address ‘Daniel Bougard - 28 Rue du Temple

and about the way we quietly inherit and observe the places we live

centred by a bouquet of summer flowers framed within scrolling cartouches

Including sofa and two matching armchairs