The burnished gold and 'rosewood' painted tripod-candelabrum stand, of French 'anthemienne' form, has a reeded tazza supported by a baluster and bacchic panther monopodia with palm and reed-wrapped columnar shafts on hollow-sided altar plinth. It relates to 'Drawing Room Candelabri' engraved in 1804 and illustrated in George Smith's, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, pl. 113. Its monopodiae, also dated 1804, featured as part of a sideboard (ibid., pl. 93) and their reeding appeared on the previous sideboard pattern (pl. 92). Commenting on the 'candelabri', Smith stated that they were 'adapted for the handles of Drawing Rooms, or state apartments, to support silver candlesticks, smaller candelabri, or transparent alabaster vases, with lights inside. They may be executed, where elegance is required, wholly in gold, or partly in imitation of bronzed metal'.