Altar candlestick, The round candlestick rests on three four-sided, volute-shaped legs. The sides of the legs have sunken, punched fields and are adorned with acanthus leaves, a cord of shrinking pearls runs across the front of each leg, resting on a leaf curl. The legs are connected at the top by straight rods, hidden from view by a culot-like motif made up of leaves. Flower festoons depend on the upper curls of the volutes (one renewed on B). The trunk is made up of, successively, a bell-shaped, a vase-shaped and a baluster-shaped part. The convex lower edge of the bell shape is decorated wi

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