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Pair of Candle Stands (torchères)

c. 1773

Thomas Chippendale

(British, 1718–1779)
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Culture
England
Medium
Gilt-wood, gesso
Measurements
Each: 154 x 56 x 51 cm (60 5/8 x 22 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2018.203
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Location
203A British Painting and Decorative Arts
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Candle stands usually held silver or crystal candelabra that were lit for evening entertainment.

Description

This pair of gilded candle stands was made by Thomas Chippendale, the most renowned cabinetmaker in eighteenth-century London, for the grand drawing room of Brocket Hall, a large country house in Hertfordshire, England. With finely carved acanthus leaves, swags, fluting, and oval masks depicting the Roman goddess Diana, these candle stands exhibit Chippendale’s masterful understanding of neoclassical proportion, scale, and ornament. His landmark book of furniture designs, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (first published in 1754), was highly admired as a source of inspiration by cabinetmakers and architects around England as well as in Europe and America.
Two tall golden candle stands, each with a triangle base and tall column. All around are intricately carved designs and patterns, including leaves going down each column and oval images of a woman's face on each side of the bases.

Pair of Candle Stands (torchères)

c. 1773

Thomas Chippendale

(British, 1718–1779)
England

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