Pricket Candlestick (early 1500s): Art, History and Details

Pricket Candlestick (early 1500s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This object is an example of a type of metalwork known as "dinanderie," produced in and around the town of Dinant on the River Meuse in the Belgian province of Namur. Late medieval Dinant specialized in the production of these finely cast and finished objects in brass alloy, supplying aquamanilia, candlesticks, patens, basins, baptismal fonts, and other altar furniture throughout the Meuse Valley and for export beyond.

Object facts

• Title: Pricket Candlestick
• Date: early 1500s
• Culture: South Netherlands, Valley of the Meuse, 16th century
• Type: Metalwork
• Technique: brass (hollow cast in three parts) and iron
• Dimensions: Overall: 45.5 x 19.6 cm (17 15/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Renaissance
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1974.185

Collection credit

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Paul G. Ecker

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62–102.

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