Group of Four English and Dutch Brass Candlesticks, 17th/18th Centuries

comprising a Dutch hem-skirt candlestick, a pair of English square-base tapersticks and an English dished base traveling candlestick with foliate decoration. 

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For a near identical example to the Dutch hem-skirt stick, see Peter, Nancy and Herbert Schiffer, The Brass Book, (Exton, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1978), p. 161, pl. B.