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| Keywords: Italian - Candlestick with Decorative Motifs - Walters 4434.jpg At the base of the pricket is a gadrooned grease-pan It is enameled inside in white outside in white-and-blue and green-on-white with gilt ornament It rests on a blue globe with green stars which is supported by a green-enameled capital with six crockets picked out by gilding This tops a tapering columnar stem enameled in white and decorated with a gilt diaper design enclosing fleurs-de-lys The convex bottom of the stem has eight white gadroons on a blue ground and is attached by means of a depressed molded base in green enamel with gilding to a quadrangular trapezoidal plinth the sides of which have gently undulating surfaces The top of the plinth is white the sides are blue and are decorated on each of three faces with a varying vase-shaped ornament from which spread two symmetrical white stems bearing running leaves and ending in scrolls The fourth side shows a gilt wreath framing a white medallion whereon is painted in black and gold a bird holding a fleur-de-lys in its bill The plinth rests on four brass balls and is enameled on its inner surface in blue on white ca 1500 Renaissance technique painted enamel copper cm 22 accession number 44 34 5338 Raoul Heilbronner Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass Corning Museum of Glass Corning 1958 Russian Enamels The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996-1997 place of origin Venice Italy Walters Art Museum license Candlesticks Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
