Treasures of Time: A Collection of Antiquities, Islamic & Chinese Art

A TIMURID BRONZE CANDLESTICK, IRAN, 15TH CENTURY

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Start price: £4,000

Estimated price: £6,000 - £8,000

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With slightly tapering cylindrical body and flat wide shoulders, the ringed neck rising to a tapering mouth with flaring rim, plain.

H: 17.8cm 

Provenance: Christie’s South Kensington, The Saeed Motamed Collection: Part I, 22nd April 2013

Literature: Thomas Dexel, Handwerk und Kunst in Persien, Stadtisches Museum Braunschweig, 1991, cat.31, p.46