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.