A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT CANDLE-STANDS, each with circular top with everted gallery pierced with quatrefoils and concave-sided lozenges with gadrooned edge, on turned shafts with spiral and straight flutes divided by a foliate baluster knop carved with acanthus on tripod cabriole bases carved with acanthus and C-scrolls ending in scrolled feet, repairs to galleries

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT CANDLE-STANDS, each with circular top with everted gallery pierced with quatrefoils and concave-sided lozenges with gadrooned edge, on turned shafts with spiral and straight flutes divided by a foliate baluster knop carved with acanthus on tripod cabriole bases carved with acanthus and C-scrolls ending in scrolled feet, repairs to galleries
13¾in. (35cm.) diam.; 42½in. (108cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The late S.B. Joel, Esq.,2 Great Stanhope Street, London W.1, sold Christie's London, 29 May 1935, lot 128, 310 gns. (#325 10s) to M. Harris
Acquired by the mid-1950s
Literature

Exhibited
B.A.D.A. Golden Jubilee Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1968, no. 156 (Catalogue, fig. 103)

Lot Essay

Several other pairs of candle-stands of this model are known. The closest parallels are two pairs (possibly the same) - one pair formerly in the Collection of Lord Barnard at Raby Castle, Co. Durham, illustrated in O. Brackett and H. Clifford-Smith , English Furniture Illustrated, rev. edn., 1950, p.196, pl. CLX VIII. The other pair in the James Thursby-Pelham Collection illustrated in P. Macquoid & R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., London, 1954, vol. III, p.150, fig. 19. Both these pairs have less elaborately pierced galleries and the fluting on the shaft is less spiral

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