Candlestick, Ottoman Empire, probably Anatolia, 19th century Candlestick with strangled truncated cone-shaped base topped by a cylindrical shaft and truncated cone-shaped wick, in copper alloy with engraved decoration of fleurons and foliage with bifid palmettes, inscribed in cartouches and medallions on the main register of the base, arranged in friezes on the rest of the candlestick. Height: 20 cm; base diameter: 19.2 cm Slight deformations, small crack at the base, small perforation in the spool. Provenance : Former collection of Michael Pacha Portakalian (1842-1897), high-ranking official at the court of Sultan Abdulhamid II, then by descent.