Estimated Price:

$25,000 - $35,000

Realized Price:

$50,190

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Circa 1730 Each dished hexagonal top with gadrooned edge over a down-turned leaf-sheathed base and tapering faceted stem hung with flower garlands, on an upspringing leaf-sheathed bottom, the three laurel leaf-headed squared cabriole legs with lions' paw feet, with paper labels inscribed DO,NNN, (PAIR) and (45) 413/4in. (106cm.) high, 83/4in. (22cm.) diameter the top (2) PROVENANCE Collection of Lord Henniker, Thornham Hall, Eye, Suffolk. With James A. Lewis & Son, New York. Sold by a New York Private Collector, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 21-22 January 1944, lot 326. NOTES The overall form of these candlestands with their squared tapering husk-carved pedestals and gadroon-rimmed supports derives from late seventeenth century examples executed in gilt-gesso in the Louis XIV court style. The French style was disseminated into the Royal court of England principally through the engravings of Daniel Marot, architect to William III, and the Huguenot cabinet-making family of Jean Pelletier and his sons, Ren‚ and Thomas, who were appointed Royal cabinet-makers to King William III. Related gueridon patterns were issued in Marot's Nouveaux Livre d'Orfevrerie and the prototype for this form of stand was realized in the two pairs supplied for Hampton Court Palace in 1701 (illustrated in T. Murdoch, 'Jean, Ren‚ and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot family of carvers and gilders in England 1782-1826', Burlington Magazine, November 1997, p.736, fig.6). The candlestands illustrate the evolution of this style richly carved in imported mahogany on elegant cabriole legs as published in Thomas Chippendale's Director, 1762, pl.CXLV. The narrow paw feet feature on a pair of stands formerly in the Geoffrey Blackwell collection and later sold from the Samuel Messer Collection, Christie's London, 5 December 1991, lot 92. A related pair of stands of a later date from the collection of Earl Howe, Buckinghamshire was sold by Arthur Leidsdorf, Sotheby's London, 27-28 June 1974, lot 39 and is now in the Noel Terry collection at Fairfax House, York (the torcheres and Chippendale's design illustrated in P.Brown, ed., The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks, York, 1987, p.125). These candlestands once formed part of the collection of Lord Henniker at Thornham Hall in Suffolk. Sadly, very little is known about this house and its collection. The house was remodelled by E.B. Lamb (d.1869) for 4th Lord Henniker in 1837-8 and was demolished in 1934 (H.R. Barker, East Suffolk Illustrated, 1908-9, p.474).