Antique Fancy Brass Spiral Adjusting Candlestick Courting Candle (1720-1780)

Description

Offering an
Antique Fancy Brass Spiral Adjusting Candlestick (Courting Candle).
Highly detailed and decorated brass, circa 1720 - 1780. Candlestick stands
7.5" high, 5 3/4" between pairs of paw feet legs and 6" wide at leaf cut tip to bold strap carrying handle.
It is repose, cut and engraved from top to bottom.
The
3 lobe edged drip pan has 3 different and very detailed allegorical faces. Curled cut and engraved leaves surround the candle coil base.
The fancy "traveller" used to move the candle vertically
has a curled stem-leaf termination.
Base wing nut is "ram's horn" scrolled.
From 30 year collection (Item No. 255).