Chandelier

ca. 1500 (Late Medieval)

67.5 cm 72.5 cm

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This bizarre creation originally had little candleholders attached to the antlers. Chandeliers made from wooden half-figures with elk antlers attached at their backs called "Lüstermännchen" or "Lüsterweibchen," literally "little chandelier man" or "woman" were popular in Germa...

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William Randolph Hearst [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Blumka Gallery, New York; Mr. and Mrs. James O. Anderson, 1971, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, June 8, 1971, by gift.
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संस्कृति
German
माध्यम
painted wood and elk horn

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