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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy candlestick of later Medieval to Post-Medieval date. One cup and part of one arm from a multi-socketed candlestick survive intact, the remainder missing due to old breaks. The cup is rectangular in profile with a hexagonally faceted outer face and hexagonal plan. It has a crenelated rim beneath which is a raised circumferential collar, a deeply incised groove separating the crenelations from the collar. The hexagonal facets are undecorated, although at the middle of the cup are opposing rectangular perforations. At the base of the cup are two circumferential collars again separated by a deeply incised groove, and beneath this the cup tapers towards a hexagonal stem. A short length of stem is just visible beneath the cup where there is hexagonal knop with flat base and flattened stem projecting to one side, which terminates in old breaks. This projecting stem would presumably have been attached to a larger central staem from which one or more further stems and cups would have radiated. The entire object measures 52.51mm in length, 23.99mm in width at rim, 2.86mm in thickness at rim, and weighs 61.79g.The use of a hexagonally faceted cup on a copper-alloy candlestick is noted in Medieval London from the later-15th century onwards. The LMMC indicates a possible foreign influence for the appearance of such candlesticks, and parallels in both the LMMC (Fig. 55) and in Egan (Egan, 2005: no. 335) indicate a possible date for the current example in the late-15th to 16th centuries, c.1475-1600 AD, or perhaps a little earlier or later.
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