CIRCA 1750

These candlestands form part of a closely related group that was certainly executed in the same workshop. This model has been prized by some of the great collectors of English furniture. A virtually identical example in the Samuel Messer collection, was sold Christie's London, 5 December 1991, lot 67 and another, The Property of a Gentleman, was sold Christie's London, 6 February 1997, lot 155. Other examples with virtually identical shafts but with pierced galleries and pad feet include one from the collection of Percival Griffiths (illustrated in R.W.Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, fig.197) and another of the same design from the collection of J.S.Sykes (illustrated in R.W.Symonds, 'Eighteenth Century Mahogany Furniture', Apollo, 8 April 1937, p.71, fig.VIII). A further related example carved in rosewood is in the Noel Terry Collection at Fairfax House, York and is illustrated in P.Brown, ed., The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks, London, 1987, p.124, pl.122.