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| Keywords: German - Candlestick with a Young Page - Walters 5484.jpg Candles were expensive and used by affluent households This candle holder demonstrates the desire to make home furnishings ornamental imaginative and indicative of status It is cast in the shape of a young page who kneels to hold the candle for his lord -- understood to be the person to whom this candle stick belonged century 14 15 Medieval bronze cm 14 6 10 8 11 7 accession number 54 84 20860 Lehmann secretary to Baron Alphonse de Rothschild Paris Henri Daguerre Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1927 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
