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Lot Essay
These George II vase or candelabra stands are designed in the French picturesque manner popularized by Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754-1762 (pls. CXLIV and CXLV). The ornament relates a 'pair of Candlestands neatly carv'd...' by Chippendale for James, 2nd Duke of Atholl's drawing room at Blair Castle, Scotland in 1758 (C. Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 378).
The acanthus-carved stems supporting open 'vase-like' capitals can be compared with a pair of 'candle stands' supplied about 1745 by the carver and furniture designer Matthias Lock (d.1765) for Hinton House, Somerset. A pen and ink design executed by Lock is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Rococo, Art and Design in Hogarth's England, Victoria and Albert Musuem, London, exh. cat., 1984, no. L14.) A related pair of torcheres to the present lot were sold, Christie's, London, 9 July 1992, lot 15 (£46,200).
The acanthus-carved stems supporting open 'vase-like' capitals can be compared with a pair of 'candle stands' supplied about 1745 by the carver and furniture designer Matthias Lock (d.1765) for Hinton House, Somerset. A pen and ink design executed by Lock is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Rococo, Art and Design in Hogarth's England, Victoria and Albert Musuem, London, exh. cat., 1984, no. L14.) A related pair of torcheres to the present lot were sold, Christie's, London, 9 July 1992, lot 15 (£46,200).