A pair of large Ottoman cast brass candlesticks, Turkey, 16th century

each with a body of waisted truncated conical form standing on a splayed ribbed base, the flattened drip-tray with a raised rim, the narrow cylindrical neck with one major and four minor bulbous rings, surmounted by a broaded truncated socket with a central rib

These items are in good condition. Both with darkening marks and minor nicks throughout, especially to the rims and base. Minor oxidation marks to one drip tray. Very light scratches throughout. As viewed.
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A stylistically and dimensionally comparable pair of mosque candlesticks, albeit made of tombak, were published in Yanni Petsopoulos (ed.), Tulips, Arabesques & Turbans: Decorative Arts from the Ottoman Empire, London, 1982, pp.46,60-1, no.33.