Candlestick

Candlestick

BK-16933

inscription: ‘MAGGIO E GIVGNO MCCCCLXVIII’

An Italian inscription on this candlestick’s base states: ‘May and June 1468’. Carlo di Niccola di Messer Vieri de’ Medici was then gonfaloniere, the highest office in Florence. He commissioned the candlestick from the renowned sculptor Verrocchio to commemorate the peace of 1468, marking the end of the war against Venice. The candlestick stood in the town hall of Florence.

sculptor: Andrea del Verrocchio, Florence

1468 - 1469

brons met donkerbruine, natuurlijke patina

height 151.5 cm x diameter 46.5 cm x weight 50.2 kg

Public domain

Commissioned by Carlo di Nicola di Messer Vieri de'Medici, Florence, 1468;{Gaye 1839, I, pp. 569-570; Valentiner 1933, p. 228.} Palazzo Vecchio (Sala dell´Udienza), Florence, in or after 1469;{Gaye 1839, I, p. 575; Valentiner 1933, p. 228.} …; collection Bartholdi, Rome, before 1825; Royal Kunstkammer der Hohenzollern, later the Schlossmuseum, Berlin, in or before 1825;{Coll. cat. Berlin 1825, no. ?; Valentiner 1933, p. 228; inventory number K.4327 on the lower edge of the baluster.} Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, 1875; sold to the dealer N.V. Internationale Antiquiteitenhandel Amsterdam in order to purchase the Welfenschatz, 1935;{Leeuwenberg 1973, pp. 374-5, no. 629; Restitution request "Guelph Treasure" (Welfenschatz), 30.11.2010, p. 19.}…; collection Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris; purchased from his estate by the Dienststelle Mühlmann as `Sichergestelltes Kunstwerk´ intended for the planned Führermuseum in Linz, stored in Hohenfurt Monastery, Bohemia, 1940;{Shipping list collection Mannheimer, crate no. K. 68, no. Br. 36; Kieslinger 1941, p. 95.} war recuperation, SNK, 1946;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Verslagen 1953, p. 19.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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