A round two-piece top, with sliding drawer and molded edge ends underneath. It is raised on a turned shaft and arched tripod base ending in snake feet. It still has the original brown paint.
candlestands (furniture)
cherry (wood)
painting (coating)
cherry (wood)
Cherry
Painted
CANDLESTAND
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
26.5 (H), 18 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.458
Connecticut (United States)
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