An early Ottoman cast brass candlestick, Turkey, circa 1500

the body of truncated conical form with flanged base, perforated bands and everted drip-pan, the shaft with globed perforated bulb, the socket of spool form with ridges, engraved with a central band of cartouches containing incised inscriptions and thinner bands of chain pattern and foliate motifs

in overall good condition, as viewed.
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Inscription:

li-sahibihi al-sa'ada / wa al-salama / wa tu [l] / al-'umr sahat (sic.) [ma nahat] hamama a /

'To its owner Happiness and Well-being and Long-life as long as the dove coos'

This inscription can be found on Persian metalwork as early as the third quarter of the thirteenth century and continued to be engraved on later Persian and Ottoman works (see Melikian Chirvani 1982, p. 143).