Regency Style Painted, Carved Palm Motif Torcheres, England c.1850

This impressive pair of 19th century Italian torches are a sublime work of European Baroque art. Carved in golden wood, it gives us an exquisite decoration of angels among fruits and...

Pair of torchère or pedestals painted, George III, circa 1800, each circular top painted to simulate marble panels, above a molded frieze, mounted with brass lion masks, raised on tr...

Early 20th century English Georgian style mahogany torchere or plant stand with a molded dish top supported by a tall carved and turned tapering column, raised on three shaped cabrio...

Antique French Louis XV Style Plant Stand, Carved Wood Table, Sculpture Pedestal, Late 19th Century This highly decorative plant stand would ma...

This is pair of regency style Italian candlesticks with tole palm fronds. The stems are carved wood with bases that are 6.25 inches square. They are in very good vintage condition.

A fine and rare pair of English Regency period torchères, or stands (or candle stands) in the manner of Thomas Hope. Circa 1810. Both are raised on tapering simulated-bronze column supports with circular tops and fluted gilt collars, on concave-sided triform bases with winged-panther mask monopodia. The column bases issue from spreading, gilded, carved lotuses. These antique torcheres might also be referred to as columns, ornamental stands, candle sticks, or candelabra. In superb condition throughout. Literature: ‘Thomas Hope – Regency Designer’ ed. David Watkin & Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Yale University Press, New Haven and London (2008). The Aurora Room, Duchess Street, photo from V & A Museum, fig. 68-1, p. 378. The Royal Collection, HM Queen Elizabeth II, RCIN 588- 1-2, 45- 1-2, figs. 78-2, 78-3, p. 396. The Faringdon Collection, Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, illustr. 88, p. 414. The pair of stands we are offering here correspond closely to the pair in the Faringdon Collection (see above). Watkin and Hewat-Jaboor state; ‘’A ‘Roman’ stand of this precise design, perhaps an imaginative variation on one published by Visconti*, is illustrated in ‘Household Furniture’, plate L, number 2… Hope also owned several classical Roman candelabra...