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Tripod base with cabriole legs with pad feet. Baluster support with vase and ring turning at bottom; top tapers to junction with circular top. Single rectangular supporting bar. Painted black. Gilt floral and scroll decoration imitating earlier jappaning.
candlestands (furniture)
gilding
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
cabriole legs
floral patterns
pine (wood)
Queen Anne
scrolls (motifs)
Pine
Painted
Queen Anne
Gilded
Turned
Cabriole Leg
Floral
Scroll
CANDLESTAND
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
23.75 (H), 18.125 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.976
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