Pricket Candlestick with a Naked Youth Fighting a Dragon

South Netherlandish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 304

The dragon speared by a naked youth is a fanciful subject typical of the imaginative creatures found in the work of medieval goldsmiths and in manuscript illumination.

Pricket Candlestick with a Naked Youth Fighting a Dragon, Gilded copper alloy, South Netherlandish

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