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Very Rare Northwestern European Hand-Blown Glass Candlestick, possibly Liege, Belgium or Nuremberg, Germany, Circa 1680

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January 23, 10:36 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Very Rare Northwestern European Hand-Blown Glass Candlestick

possibly Liege, Belgium or Nuremberg, Germany

Circa 1680


Height 10 1/4 in.

Please note, this lot is no longer being offered without reserve.
Joseph and Hazel Marcus, Ebenezer Alden House, Union, Maine;
Vernon Gunnion Antiques, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Ebenezer Alden House advertisement, Maine Antique Digest, June 1989, 18-D.

Not surprisingly given their fragile nature, few 17th century glass candlesticks survive. A related example is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and is illustrated in Journal of Glass Studies, vol 9, 1967, The Corning Museum of Glass, no. 35 and Jonathan Bourne and Vanessa Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior: Renaissance to Art Nouveau, (London: Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1991), p. 25, no. 45.