Pricket Candlestick with a Naked Youth Fighting a Dragon, ca. 1140–60, Made in Meuse Valley, Netherlands, South Netherlandish, Copper alloy, cast and gilt, Overall: 7 5/8 x 6 x 4in. (19.4 x 15.2 x 10.2cm), Metalwork-Copper alloy, 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.
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Pricket Candlestick, Naked Youth Fighting, Dragon, ca, 1140–60, Meuse Valley, Netherlands, South Netherlandish, Copper alloy, cast, gilt, Overall, 7 5/8 x 6 4in, 19.4 15.2 10.2cm, Metalwork-Copper, dragon, speared, naked youth, fanciful subject, typical, imaginative creatures, work, medieval goldsmiths, manuscript illumination
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