Candlestick

Germany

1820-30

  • Titles Candlestick (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 1 7/16 × 5 1/16 × 4 1/16 in. (3.6 × 12.9 × 10.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.281
  • Work Type candlestick
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Titus (39-81 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name TITUS is impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Bust front.
Round dark blue jasper medallion with white relief scene of Coriolanus with his wife and mother persuading him to return to Rome, set in brass frame with ring
View of the Limburg Cathedral.