Set of four candlesticks

1662

Not on view

These candlesticks originally belonged to a set of six that illuminated an altar dedicated to Our Lady of the Pomegranate, a miracle-working sculpture venerated in the town of Llerena in southwestern Spain. The candlesticks and a matching chalice were sent from Peru by a Spanish devotee of the Virgin. Their austere “purist” style, current in both Spain and Spanish America, is visually offset by prominent knops displaying pomegranates that reference the church’s titular Virgin.

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Title: Set of four candlesticks
Date: 1662
Culture: Peruvian
Medium: Silver, chased, engraved
Dimensions: Overall (.1 confirmed): 18 1/8 × 7 3/8 × 7 3/8 in., 105.916oz. (46 × 18.7 × 18.7 cm, 3003g);
Overall (.2 confirmed): 18 5/16 × 7 7/16 × 7 7/16 in., 102.001oz. (46.5 × 18.9 × 18.9 cm, 2892g);
Overall (.3 confirmed): 18 1/16 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in., 108.826oz. (45.9 × 19.1 × 19.1 cm, 3085.5g);
Overall (.4 confirmed): 18 1/8 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in., 109.919oz. (46 × 19.1 × 19.1 cm, 3116.5g)
Classification: Metalwork-Silver
Credit Line: Purchase, Wrightsman Fellows Gifts, 2017
Object Number: 2017.356.1–.4
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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