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Pair of Candle Stands (torchères)
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated c. 1773. Recorded culture or place: England.
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- Museum title
- Pair of Candle Stands (torchères)
- Date
- c. 1773
- Culture / origin
- England
- Materials and technique
- Gilt-wood, gesso
- Dimensions
- Each: 154 x 56 x 51 cm (60 5/8 x 22 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Thomas Chippendale (British, 1718–1779)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2018.203
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This pair of gilded candle stands was made by Thomas Chippendale, the most renowned cabinetmaker in eighteenth-century London, for the grand drawing room of Brocket Hall, a large country house in Hertfordshire, England. With finely carved acanthus leaves, swags, fluting, and oval masks depicting the Roman goddess Diana, these candle stands exhibit Chippendale’s masterful understanding of neoclassical proportion, scale, and ornament. His landmark book of furniture designs, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (first published in 1754), was highly admired as a source of inspiration by cabinetmakers and architects around England as well as in Europe and America.
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