Design for a Candlestick in the Antique Manner with a Crayfish
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Copy in reverse of a design for a candlestick in the antique manner. The candlestick is characterized by masks of horned sheep and a crayfish on its stem, and two fantastical hybrid figures on either side of a sacrificial scene in low relief on its foot. From a series of designs for candle sticks in the Antique manner thought to have been made by an anonymous artist who published his designs through Antonio Salamanca (1552), and later Lafreri (ca. 1573). A second series exists by the renowned engraver Enea Vico, but it is unclear which was the first to be issued. While Bartsch gives the primacy of the designs to Vico, Fuhring has argued for a reverse order based on the relative poor quality of Vico's prints.
