Socket Candelabrum in the Form of a Kneeling Man
DateEarly 15th century
CultureNetherlandish or German
MediumBronze
ClassificationMetalwork
ProvenanceEmile Gavet, Paris (cat. #278. ill.), approximately 1870s-1880s; sold to Mr. and Mrs. William K. and Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt, Gothic Room, Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1889-1982; transfered to Mrs. Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont in divorce; purchased by John Ringling, 1928; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN7063
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Mid-seventeenth century, the base probably nineteenth century
late 18th or early 19th century