ca. 1890-1907
GUSN-172668
Pair of Chippendale style candlestands, with square tops with canted corners. Top attached at center bottom to tall slender columnar tripod support. Cylindrical column surmounted by cup shaped capital with ring turnings with medial elongated ball turnings on a stepped base. Bottom of column scalloped. Whole supported by three cabriole legs with high knees tapering to slender ankles with egg-shaped ball in arched taloned claw foot. Appeared in 1907 photographs.
candlestands (furniture)
Candlestand
Original To Governor John Langdon House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
44 1/4 x 16 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Mrs. Woodbury Langdon
1966.301AB
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