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Candlestick

about 1660-1690
Medium/TechniqueBrass
DimensionsHeight x width: 16.5 × 11.1 × 11.1 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III
Accession number2019.500.2
On View
On view
ClassificationsTools and equipment
Collections
InscriptionsInscribed on the underside in ink: “anciens / 1201 [?]”
ProvenanceJanuary 29, 1928, sold by Lambert to Brummer Galleries, New York (stock no. P4595a-b); about 1949, passed to Ernest Brummer (b. 1891 - d. 1964) and Ella Baché Brummer (b. 1900 - d. 1999), New York [see note 1]; 1966, sold by Ella Baché Brummer to the Duke University Museum of Art (later the Nasher Museum of Art), Durham, NC; 2003, deaccessioned by the Nasher Museum of Art and sold through Hesse Galleries, Otego, NY. October 9, 2007, sold by Grace and Elliot Snyder Antiques, South Egremont, MA, to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vogel III, Milwaukee, WI; 2019, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vogel to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)

NOTES:
[1] After the death of dealer Joseph Brummer, the stock of Brummer Galleries was dispersed at auction, and his brother Ernest received much of what did not sell. In 1966, this collection was sold to Duke University. See Caroline Bruzelius, "Introduction," The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art: The Duke University Museum of Art (Durham and London, 1991), pp. 1-11.