Late 14th Century travellers candle holder with square socket, bronze. excellent condition and very rare.

This is a true collector’s item from the late 14th century.
- Traveller’s candleholder
- Made of bronze
- height is 12cm
- width 2.5cm
- square slot in base.
- the base is missing, but would also have been bronze, we have made a replacement wooden base to compliment this piece.

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Provenance : see Christie’s sale where one identical, but with base made £21,000 !

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-4894474

This is about the one sold in Christie’s and not the one for sale here!! But is similar except made from bronze!

These candlesticks represent the earliest surviving articles made in pewter apart from spoons or pilgrim badges. Three similar candlesticks exist in pewter, one in the Museum of London which was excavated from a mid 15th Century deposit, illustrated in 'Pewter, a handbook of selected Tudor and Stuart pieces' front cover and as No. 18 in the Museum exhibition 'Pewter, a Celebration of the Craft' 1989. One in the Moulson collection and one in the Museum of British Pewter, Harvard House, Statford-on-Avon.
This example was purchased at auction having been discovered in the thatch of a Shropshire cottage.
For similar in brass see Christopher Bangs, The Lear Collection, 1995 Nos 8-9 where the English attribution is convincingly argued, and Eloy Koldeweij, The English Candlestick, 2001 Nos.1-3.
See also David Moulson, Journal of the Pewter Society, Spring 2003, 'Medieval candlesticks of the Bunsen Burner style', in which the author convincingly argues an English attribution.