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Pair of Rock Crystal Candlesticks
(Baroque Europe )
Rock crystal, a transparent quartz mineral that was highly prized, can be carved in various ways, including with facets, as here, to catch the flickering light of a candle. Before the invention of electricity, candlelight in a darkened chapel would have created an easily understood metaphor for divine illumination.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Switzerland
(Place of Origin)
Germany (Place of Origin)
Measurements
18 11/16 in. (47.4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
VO.5 (41.82, 41.83)