English Candle Stands

An Extremely Attractive And Very Good Quality Late 18th Century, George III Period, Mahogany Torchere, or Candle Stand, Having Well Figured Octagonal Top With Elegant Wavy Gallery, R...

An authentic Period George II mixed wood Wine Stand with fine traditional form. The Stand has a fine grained mahogany top and is supported by a turned oak vasiform column terminating...

A pair of finely carved 18th century Georgian mahogany stands with quatrefoil tops and fret drops on tall, slender ringed baluster turned shafts with fiddlehead fern carved tripod ba...

With a circular top with fine tight walnut burl over a turned post joined by a tripartite base.

Square top with fret carved gallery, carved support and ending on three carved cabriole legs and scroll feet.

Diminutive 18th century English candle stand. Crafted from oak with inlaid octagonal top on turned pedestal and terminating in three claw feet.

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A very attractive and good quality late 18th century Georgian mahogany torchere, or candle stand, having well figured detachable circular top with moulded rim, over elegant turned stem with fluted decoration, terminating on three splayed tripod legs. The actual definition of a torchere is a lamp on a tall stand made of wood or metal. However these days any kind of tall antique table...

A Rare Early Georgian Mahogany Tripod Candle Stand This fine piece of early English furniture dates to the mid-19th century, George II period. I...

A late 18th Century Hepplewhite period oval satinwood Kettlestand having scalloped gallery above tulipwood frieze with oval flower panel sand slide, supported on fluted, square taper...

English Regency painted and gilt satinwood inlaid tripod candle stand with a spiral ringed pedestal, and resting on curvature splayed legs with bal...

Chippendale mahogany circular top candle stand with a vasiform turned pedestal. The top rests on arched tripod cabriole legs terminating in pad feet. English or American, circa 1770.

This is a genuine period English oak stool, dating to the early / mid 17th century, Charles 1st Carolean period, circa 1630. Genuine original stools from ...

The top of this English mahogany hexagonal sewing table has a bullnose gallery. The body is in a trapezoid shape. The six sides have recessed panels with molded edges. The stem has a...

With circular hinged pie crust top on a cylindrical fluted support joining three cabriole legs with knees carved with scroll leaf ending on claw and ball feet.

George III inlaid & cross-banded Mahogany tripod table.

Octagonal top and barley twist support ending on an X-form platform base.

George III mahogany tilt-top tripod table.

Circular top with molded edge with shaped molded support. Tripartite legs.

Due to their utilitarian nature, surviving pairs of 17th century candle stands/torchères are extremely rare and generally only seen today in great houses. The quality of the marquetry decoration and the attention to detail indicate that these candle stands were probably made for a substantial household. The turned stems displays the skill of the turner, and create fluidity, variety of form, emphasing the quality of the solid walnut grain and the floral inlay as well as holding and balancing the form of the top. The sweeping, scroll feet balance the proportion and fluidity of the candle stands/torchères, giving them presence. They are sturdy and in excellent condition. Virtually identical turnings and form. Both with octagonal tops, one with a central marquetry floral spray, the other plain. The upper sections with solid walnut baluster and ring turnings leading into lower octagonal sections decorated with marquetry floral sprays repeated 3 times. The stems supported by octagonal blocks with a repeat of the floral spray and scroll tripod bases with two floral sprays on the upper facing sections. Excellent original colour and patina. English. Height 96cm, Top diameter 29cm Moveable stands to support a candlestick or lamp were intended to supplement the fixed lighting arrangements of rooms. The evidence of inventories suggests that they did not become common in France until about 1650 when they accompanied fine tables and cabinets. Such stands, being sometimes in the form of gueridons. The fashion for decorative candlestands spread rapidly after the Restoration, when they were often made en-suite to flank a sidetable with a mirror above. Such sets are mentioned in lists of household goods and by contemporary writers. In 1664, for instance, Mary Verney is anxious to obtain “a table and stands of the same coler”. The Academy of Armory, published in 1688, defines a candle-stand as a “little round table...

With circular shaped spindled gallery raised on a turned urn form support and three cabriole legs with pad feet. Provenance; Devenish Antiques, NYC.

Circa 1760 George III period candlestand table, English. Mahogany. Well shaped and desirable piecrust top. Delicately turned vasi-form shaft with ring carved accents. Tripod base wit...