Set of four candlesticks

Unknown

1662 · Silver, chased, engraved · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

These candlesticks originally belonged to a set of six that illuminated an altar dedicated to Our Lady of the Pomegranate, a miracle-working sculpture venerated in the town of Llerena in southwestern Spain. The candlesticks and a matching chalice were sent from Peru by a Spanish devotee of the Virgin. Their austere “purist” style, current in both Spain and Spanish America, is visually offset by prominent knops displaying pomegranates that reference the church’s titular Virgin.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1662

Medium

Silver, chased, engraved

Culture

Peruvian

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Purchase, Wrightsman Fellows Gifts, 2017