A brass chandelier with a male figure Cast in several parts and partially screw-mounted. Depicting a man in Dutch Renaissance costume carrying the two candle sconces in his outstretched arms. H 33, W 28 cm. Provenance Albrecht Neuhaus, Würzburg. Private collection, Westphalia. Attributed to Southern Netherlands or Nuremberg, last quarter 16th C. Illus. In Lockner, Messing 15. - 17. Jahrhundert, Würzburg/Munich 1982, illus. 341, p. 171. A similar candlestick in the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Deutschland,second quarter 16th century, inv. no. R213, in Hoos (ed.), Kerzenleuchter aus acht Jahrhunderten, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt 1987, no. 54. Cf. also the figure in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, attributed to Nuremberg, first half 16th century, inv. no. BK-16927.