CIRCA 1800, THE TRIANGULAR PLINTHS LATER AND ORIGINALLY WITH FURTHER PEDESTAL BASES

These crisply carved torcheres wrapped with stiff leaf carving are typical of Swedish late Gustavian production at the end of the eighteenth century. A closely related example with similar gadrooned circular platform and leaf-carved base and with original base is illustrated in H. Groth, Neoclassicism in the North: Swedish Furniture and Interiors 1770-1850, New York, 1990, p. 214, pl. 63. Highly similar stiff leaf carving is also found on a set of four Gustaf III white-painted and parcel-gilt tabourets stamped by the maker Johan Lindgren (active c. 1786, d.1800), sold from an important private collection of Swedish works of art, Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lot 572.