each of truncated conical form with a ring moulded splayed base and broad flattened drip-tray, the narrow ringed neck of cylindrical form terminating in a tapering socket, the base decorated with repoussé and engraved with cypress trees flanked by cusped cartouches filled with paired palmettes, the drip-tray engraved with Greek inscription, the base stamped with the tughra of Mustafa II (r.1106-1115 AH/ 1695-1703 SD)

minor surface dents and abrasions, rubbing to gilding, as viewed
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The inscription indicates that the candlesticks were donated to the metropolis church of Kastoria, modern day Macedonia. It is extremely rare to find silverware with the tughra Mustafa II whose reign only lasted eight years. A silver-gilt candlestick of comparable form is in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, Istanbul (inv.93 A-B). A silver-gilt mosque lamp dated 1618 AD  from the shrine at Eyüp and now in the Türk ve Islamic Eserleri Müzesi, Istanbul (Petsopoulos 1982, no.52) displays similar gilt cusped cartouches around the body.