Lot 77
Pair of North Italian Renaissance Bronze Pricket Candlesticks with Pesaro Family Coat of Arms, Attributed to the Workshop of Niccolò Roccatagliata, Venice, 16th century
Lot 77 Details
Pair of North Italian Renaissance Bronze Pricket Candlesticks with Pesaro Family Coat of Arms, Attributed to the Workshop of Niccolò Roccatagliata, Venice, 16th century
each with shaft of baluster form chased with vase form ornaments decorated with draped masks under putti figures and acanthus drip pan, all on tripartite base bearing the Pesaro arms between caryatid form supports to scroll-on-block feet and suspending floral and fruit garlands
height 14.2 in — 36 cm
Estimate $5,000-$7,000
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, Important Collection of Works of Art of the Renaissance and 18th century, Property of the Late Edward Steinkopff, Esq., May 22-24, 1935, Lot 55
Alfred Spero, London, thence to Ferdinand Adda, Paris.
Palais Galliera, Paris, Collection d’un Grand Amateur (anonymous sale of the collection of Ferdinand Adda), Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 1965, Lot 403
Walter C. Koerner, Vancouver
The Koerner Foundation, Vancouver
Maynards, Vancouver, Sale of the The Koerner Foundation Collection, 1986
Private Collection, Vancouver
Literature:
Anthony Radcliffe: THE THYSSEN BORNEMISZA COLLECTION, RENAISSANCE AND LATER SCULPTURE, London, 1992, pp. 238-239