Parlor - Chandelier. This chandelier, from Flanders, was cast from a fifteenth-century original which still hangs in St. John's Hospital, Bruges. Its design shows the Virgin and Child in a sunburst. The candles, of beeswax, were made by Mary the Chandler.

Brass chandeliers such as this were imported from Flanders into England in great number in the later middle ages.

Photo copyright Lynda Pidgeon; used with permission.