Lot Essay
With its scalloped top and crimped plinth, this candlestand encorporates typical regional design preferences associated the Connecticut River Valley. A more elaborate, highstyle example of the form, on which a stand such as that illustrated here may hve been based, is illustrated and discussed in Maynard et al., Connecticut Furniture of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hartford, 1967), p. 89, fig. 154. A related galleried example was sold Sotheby's New York, June 28, 1990, lot 464.