Gilt-bronze Candlesticks with Inlaid Crystal Ornaments

Basic information

Designation

National Treasure No.174

Category

Craft

Era

통일신라시대

Designated year

1974

Location

용산구, 서울특별시— 서울 용산구 이태원로55길 60-16, 삼성미술관 리움 (한남동)

Coordinates

37.536528, 126.996187

This couple of gilt-bronze candle sticks studded with rock crystal is 36.8cm in height and 21.5cm in diameter. The overall appearance is that a foundation in the forms of six petals is set in order on the top and below of the central axis of a trunk such as a post of a stone lantern. Six animal legs tied up with a metal ring in the appearance of a flower support the below foundation while there is a rest in the type of a semicircle ornamented in a short rising stem and a double petal over that on the central of the top foundation and there is a candle holder in the type of round from the top foundation upward. All the surface of the foundation was carved in using engraving relief and intaglio and was decorated with some rock crystal by a firm cutting out at every place. These have still the historic and artistic values in spite of their washing with gold's peeling off and the rock crystal's going way. The digging place is not yet established but these are the precious samples of industrial art products of metal produced in the period of the Unification Silla Dynasty having the characteristic of overall brilliant and looking better the decoration technologies.

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