Roman Bronze Pricket Candlestick. 2nd-4th century A.D. Pricket formed as a baboon crouching on a tiered base with bun feet; the animal wearing a pounced hood with tall octagonal-section spike above; mounted on a custom-made stand. Cf. similar baboon figure in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under object number: 30.8.348. 95.7 grams total, 99 mm including stand (4 in.). From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection, 1990s.