Candlestands with T-shaped trestle bases are rare early furniture forms. The faceted collar and base on theturned standard of this stand relate it to furniture made by the Dunlap family of cabinetmakers. The earliest Dunlap family member to arrive in the colonies from Scotland was Archibald Dunlap in 1749. Listed as a husbandman, he had no direct ties to cabinetry although two of his sons, Major John and Lieutenant Samuel Dunlap worked in the trade. Major John Dunlap is first recorded as a cabinetmaker in 1768, a date which is seemingly too late for this stand unless the form continued to be made into the middle of the eighteenth century. See Currier Gallery The Dunlaps and Their Furniture (Manchester, 1970).