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