Description
This drum-shaped candlestick is engraved and inlaid with silver and gold. It bears a large Tuluth inscription, and decorations with peonies and four roundels.
Provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] On replacement neck: Hasan al-Hindi; [Date] On replacement neck: A.H. 1158
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925