The following links to period artwork and artifacts present a survey of candle-holders, whether wall-mounted, ceiling-mounted (chandeliers), or free-standing (candlesticks and candelabras), focused largely on domestic and secular examples. I've attempted to classify and organize them into different headings, to facilitate navigation of this list; my attempts at classification is not an official taxonomy of pre-17th century lighting fixtures.
Most such items represented in period artwork as gold-toned are probably copper or brass (as demonstrated in several extant examples in this list), but they could also be a gilt metal.
Let There Be Light also features some additional artworks and artifacts for these and other period lighting sources; other articles of interest include History of Lighting Traced by Science , Master Bedwyr Danwyn's "Medieval Lighting" guides , and these links on medieval lighting too.
I've also seen some interesting 15th-16th century candlesticks at a webpage for Huntington Antiques , but I'm not sure how long those photos will appear online.
ANTHROPOMORPHIC CANDLESTICKS
Schnütgen-Museum H 851 , bronze candlestick: a man, 6th century?
A jester , Lower Rhine, c. 1300
Met 41.100.130 , pricket candlestick with a boy, copper alloy, South Netherlandish, c. 1300
Walters 54.84 , candlestick with a young page, German, 14th-15th century
German candlesticks, 15th-16th centuries
Double candlestick: a crossbowman , Rhineland, 15th century
Bronze candlestick: a young man with large sleeves (also here , here , and here ), Lower Rhine, 15th century
Fragmentary double candlestick - figure of a man with his arms outstretched (also here ), Netherlands, 15th century
Double candlestick of a man (a servant?) with his arms outstretched, South Tyrol, 15th century
Cl.17086 , base of a bronze candlestick: a wild man, France, 15th century
Städtisches Museum im Roten Adler 6736 , candlestick: St. Christopher, brass, second half of the 15th century
V&A 2073-1855 , brass or bronze candlestick with a young man, Germany, early 16th century
Bronze candlestick: a fashionable young man (also here ), Nuremburg, 16th century
Bronze candlestick: an armored man , Germany, 16th century
V&A M.4-1953 , brass candlestick with a bearded man, Germany, early to mid-16th century
Brass candlestick: a landsknecht , Germany, 16th century
Bronze candlestick: a young man (also here ) Nuremburg, 16th century
ZOOMORPHIC CANDLESTICKS (ANIMALIERS)
Bronze bird-shaped lamp , Rhine, 12th-14th century
Romanesque candelholder: a stag , bronze, 12th century
V&A 1595-1855 , pricket candlestick an elephant, cast bronze, Germany, c. 1200-1400
GNM KG600 , an elephant candleholder, copper alloy, Lower Saxony, 13th century
Candlestick: a horse (also here ), Germany, c. 1300
Candleholder: a stag , Dinant, 14th century
Pricket candleholder with a monster holding a shield, 14th-15th centuries
COMBINATION ANTHROPOMORPHIC/ZOOMORPHIC CANDLESTICKS
Two candleholders: a man riding a horse, and a man riding a lion , 12th century
Louvre OA748 , candlestick with a woman on horseback holding a tree-branch, 12th century
Walters 54.784 , gilt bronze candlestick with Samson and the Lion, Mosan workshop, early 13th century
Rijksmuseum BK-16917 , a bronze candleholder with a man riding a double-headed dragon, Hildesheim, first half of the 13th century
PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
A pair of candlesticks from Salzburg, c. 1200-1220
Pricket candleholder , Lower Saxony, 13th century
Walters 44.596 , pricket candlestick with heraldic decoration (the combined arms of Bernard VIII, count of Comminges, and his second wife, Marguerite de Turenne, alternating with the royal arms of France) in champlevé enamel on copper, France, early 14th century
Candlestick made in France in the 14th or 15th century
Pricket candleholders , 14th-15th centuries
Pair of pricket candleholders , 15th century
Pair of pricket candleholders , Germany, 15th century
Wooden pricket candlestick , Regensburg, 15th century
Iron candelabras at the Met, 14th-16th century: 41.190.329 , 41.190.319a,b , 47.100.68 , 38.168.5 , 38.168.7 , 38.168.8 , 47.100.67 , 47.101.76 , 47.101.75 , 47.100.65 , 55.61.66
Met 38.168.3 and 38.168.4 , pricket candlesticks, iron, Italian (?), 15th century
Pricket candleholder and another pricket candleholder , Rhineland, 15th century
Pricket candleholder , Lower Rhine, 15th century
Jokob Mulner from the Mendel Hausbuch, 1471
A candleholder which holds three candles on prickets, supported in sockets, from Bardejov, Slovakia, c. 1490-1510
Candlestick in The Death of Mary from the altarpiece at Mariapfarr, c. 1495-1505
Cleveland 1974.185 , Netherlands (Meuse Valley), 16th century
Pricket candleholder , Lower Rhine, 16th century
Brass pricket candleholder , Lower Rhine, 16th century
Brass pricket candleholder , Lower Rhine, 16th century
Pricket candleholder , Rhineland, 16th century
Pair of pricket candleholders , Rhineland, 16th century
SOCKET CANDLESTICKS
LACMA M.2002.1.6 , brass candlestick, originally inlaid with silver and gold; made in Egypt or Syria about 1342-1346
French candlesticks made in the 14th or 15th centuries here and here
Portable candle holder , copper alloy, Gloucestershire, c. 14th-15th century
Candlestick , Netherlands, 14th-15th century
Magyar Nemzeti Müzeum 1902.42.27 , a hammered-iron candlestick, 15th century
Candlestick , 15th century
Copper candlestick (Kerk O.L.Vrouw Geboorte), 15th century
Suckling Madonna Enthroned by Jan van Eyck, c. 1436
Detail from The Birth of Mary , c. 1460-1465
German candlesticks, 15th-16th centuries
Iron candelabras at the Met, 15th century: 41.190.316a,b , 38.168.9
Double candlestick , Netherlands, 15th century
Brass candlestands , 15th century
Cast-iron candlestick , Germany, first half of the 15th century
Annunciation by Robert Campin, 1420s
The Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, 1427 (detail )
Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, 1432 (detail )
At the home of Pietro di Vinciolo in The Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070, fol. 215v), 1432
Detail from The Death of Mary , c. 1438-1440
Alexander in disguise and Darius III , The History of Alexander (BNF Fr. 9342 fol. 105v), 1448-1449
Presentation scene , Directorium ad passagium faciendum/Voyage to Outremer (BNF Fr. 9087, fol. 1), third quarter of the 15th century
Kuncz Franck from the Mendel Hausbuch, 1458
St. Jerome in his Study by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480
Meals: dinner , De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 9140, fol. 116), 1480
The Annunciation by Hans Memling, c. 1480-1489
Annunciation in the Coronation of Mary altarpiece at Spisska Kapitula, Slovakia, 1499
Hypermestra , Ovid's Heroides (BNF Fr. 873, fol. 90v), 15th-16th century
Detail from the delivery of a newborn , 1513
January from the Da Costa Hours (PML 399, fol. 2v), c. 1515
Detail from The Birth of Mary , c. 1520
A candlestick , The Tudor Pattern Book (Ashmole 1504, fol. 3v), c. 1520-1530
The Money-Changer and his Wife by Marinus van Reymerswale, 1539
Two Tax Gatherers by the workshop of Marinus van Reymerswaele, c. 1540
St. Jerome by Marinus van Reymerswale, 1541
Cleveland Museum of Art 1973.169.1 , enameled candlestick with the Triumph of Diana attributed to Jean II de Court, c. 1565
Candlestick supported by three dolphins (also here ), Germany, 16th century
Brass candlestick , 16th century
Wrought-iron three-footed candlestick , Germany, 16th century
Candleholder , Germany, 16th century
Two candlesticks , Germany, 16th century
Pair of brass candlesticks (also here , and here ), Germany, 16th century
A candle holder from the Mary Rose (1545)
Diptych of Peter Ulner by Bartholomew Bruyn the Younger, 1560
Brass candlestick , Germany, 16th century
Knob from a 16th century German candlestick
Jamestown 7363-JR , earthenware candlestick stem made in England c. 1617
WALL-MOUNTED LIGHTING
Wall-mounted candleholder and another wall-mounted candleholder , Cologne, 14th century
Oil lamp (with wall-mounting hanger and an animal on the lid), Cologne, 15th century
Annunciation by Robert Campin, 1420s
The Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, 1427 (detail )
Virgin and Child in an Interior , 1435
The Werl Altarpiece by Robert Campin, 1438 (detail )
Annunciation Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, 1440 detail )
Wall-mounted candleholder , Florence, late 15th century
The Flagellation of Christ and The Mocking of Christ from a retable at Medias, Romania, c. 1480-1490
Met 55.61.25 , iron candlestick bracket, 15th-16th century
Arm for a wall-mounted candleholder , mid-16th century
PENDANT LIGHTING AND CHANDELIERS
Dom Felice with Fra Puccio's wife in the Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070, fol. 108v), 1432
Chandelier, first half of the 15th century (caption info here )
Brass chandelier with a lion , 15th century Flanders (note stylistic similarity to the Arnolfini chandelier, below)
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife by Jan van Eyck, 1434 (detail )
Annunciation Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, 1440
Madonna and child in an interior , c. 1450
Presenting the prize to the victor in the Tournament-Book of King René d'Anjou (BNF Fr. 2692, fol. 70v), 15th century
Bal des ardents , Froissart's Chronicles (BNF Fr. 2646, fol. 176), second half of the 15th century
Brass chandelier made in the southern Netherlands in the second half of the 15th century
Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament by Dieric Bouts the Elder, 1464-67
Chandelier with an armored man and iron castles on an antler (a similar aesthetic to the leuchterweibchen ), fourth quarter of the 15th century
The Lute Player and the Harpist by Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, 1490
The Ambassadors Depart by Vittore Carpaccio, 1495-1500
Brass chandelier , 16th century
January from the Da Costa Hours (PML 399, fol. 2v), c. 1515
A chandelier from Bardejov, Slovakia, c. 1500-1530 (obviously converted to electric some time in the 20th century)
Brass chandelier with twelve lights and a wildman , made in southern Germany c. 1541-1560
A ball in Augsburg , c. 1590-1595