The faceted collar and base, urn-turned standard, pendant drop, chamfered legs and cleat and the manner in which the legs are slotted into the standard are all features that tie this stand to two examples documented to the Dunlap family of cabinetmakers. Two similar stands, one also with red paint, descended in the Dunlap family of Salisbury, New Hampshire and are associated with the shop of Lieutenant Samuel Dunlap (1752-1830) who worked in Salisbury from 1797 until his death. Samuel Dunlap kept and account book from 1780-1821 in which are listed sixteen candlestands, twice the combined amount that his brother Major John and his son James recorded in their furniture account books.

Known for producing with his oldest brother, Major Dunlap, some of the most distinctive furniture associated with the Dunlap family of cabinetmakers, Lieutenant Samuel Dunlap worked in his brother's shop in Goffstown and Bedford, New Hampshire from 1773 until 1784 when he moved to Henniker and then to Salisbury in 1797, a town located only fifteen miles from Concord, which in 1808 officially became the state capitol. See Currier Gallery, The Dunlaps and Their Furniture (Manchester, 1970).

A related stand with faceted collar and base is in the collection of the New Hampshire Historical Society; a third stand is owned privately and illustrated in Parsons, Some Additional Dunlap Data (1971), no. 247; see also the William and Mary Dunlap stand in this collection, lot _____.