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Two candlesticks
Also titled Twee kandelaars
1668
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- candlestick
- Dimensions
- height 29.3 cm x diameter 19.7 cm x diameter 9 cm x weight 495 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
These candlesticks are decorated smooth, ovoid planes. When the candles are lit, these fields look like wax drippings. This abstract ornamentation differs notably from the elaborate chasing found on much other Dutch silver from the third quarter of the 17th century.
