Lot Essay
These stands for candelabra or flower-vases, with their acanthus-enriched claw feet and vase-capped columnar stems, fluted and reeded in the antique manner, are designed in the George II style of the 1740s.
Such pairs of stands, intended to flank pier or dressing-tables, relate to that supplied in 1741 by Peter Hasert (d.1746), cabinet-maker of Lincoln's Inn Fields, for Ham House, Richmond (see: Furniture History, 1980, fig. 179). Another stand with the same tray pattern and brass-inlaid rim was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 15 December 1990, lot 83. The contemporary fashion for brass-inlaid furniture in the French manner is discussed in C.Gilbert, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture, London, 1993
Such pairs of stands, intended to flank pier or dressing-tables, relate to that supplied in 1741 by Peter Hasert (d.1746), cabinet-maker of Lincoln's Inn Fields, for Ham House, Richmond (see: Furniture History, 1980, fig. 179). Another stand with the same tray pattern and brass-inlaid rim was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 15 December 1990, lot 83. The contemporary fashion for brass-inlaid furniture in the French manner is discussed in C.Gilbert, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture, London, 1993