An Etruscan Bronze Candelabrum , 5th Century B.C.

cast in five sections, with tripod leonine feet resting on beaded round bases and joining at the top in an echinus molding decorated with engraved tongues and beading, slender faceted stem surmounted by an openwork disk, and beaded and molded spool with four projecting arms each terminating in a lotus-bud shaped pricket, the finial in the form of a cock standing alertly on a circular base with beaded border, talons splayed, the feathers indicated by rows of crescentic incisions and short striations, his head with sharply pointed beak, prominent wattle, and low notched crest.

William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby's, New York, The Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Highly Important Vases. The William Herbert Hunt Collection, Highly Important Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Bronzes, June 19th, 1990, no. 31, illus.)

"Wealth of the Ancient World: The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt collections," Kimbell Art Museum, June 25th to September 18th, 1983, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, October 19th to December 11th, 1983, Detroit Institute of Arts, February 1st to March 24th, 1984, and Dallas Museum of Art, April 25th to June 10th, 1984

Dietrich von Bothmer, Jane M. Cody, Jiri Frel, Arthur Houghton, Catharine Custus Lorber, and Margaret Ellen Mayo, Wealth of the Ancient World, The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt Collections, catalogue of the exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Dallas Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1983, catalogue no. 31, illus.

prickets on lotus buds mostly fragmentary, modern cement visible in interstices suggest that stem and base were reattached in modern times as well as spool and finial, two of the lotus buds have spots of bronze disease, otherwise very good and as shown
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For another candelabrum final in the form of a rooster see E. Hostetter, Bronzes from Spina, Mainz am Rhein, 1986, no. 68, pl. 73b-c. Cf. Die Welt der Etrusker, Berlin, 1988, D2.23 (p. 271) for the form of the stem.