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Hand-shaped candleholder
Prussian workshop (?)1500/1700
Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork
Frombork, Poland
A candle holder in the form of a wall lamp. It consists of two elements: a cartouche in the form of a mascaron surrounded by a rollwerk ornament and an upright, muscular hand sticking out of the monster's mouth. Placed in a clenched hand
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Details
- Title: Hand-shaped candleholder
- Creator: Prussian workshop (?)
- Date Created: 1500/1700
- Location Created: Prussia
- Physical Dimensions: 26 x 31 x 46 cm
- Type: craftsmanship
- Medium: gilded wood
- Art Genre: candleholder
- Art Form: craftsmanship
- Support: gilded wood
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