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candlestick
An assortment of decorative candles and candlesticks arranged for display.
The Gloucester candlestick, an English work dating from the early 12th century, is decorated with a surface that is both pierced and modeled. The ornamentation features nude human figures engaged in fighting dragons, all set among intricate foliate scrolls.1