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Stand

Object number

RIF5700

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 26 in. (66.04 cm) Top: 17 1/2 × 17 1/4 in. (44.45 × 43.82 cm)

Date

1760–80

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); maple (cleat)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

The Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010 and 2013

Associated names

Stanley Weiss Collection

Construction

The circular, two-piece top is supported by a turned, tapering pedestal, doweled into a large cleat with bowed and chamfered ends and tapering, chamfered sides. The cleat is fixed to the underside of the top with eight fasteners, including countersunk screws. To the sides of the plain, cylindrical pedestal base are fixed, in joints concealed by a three-armed iron plate attached with nails, three flat-sided, rounded-top cabriole legs ending in shod snake feet. Notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd from photographs supplied by Stanley Weiss.

Bibliography

"A Mahogany Queen Anne Candlestand," http://www.tildenthurber.com/stanleyweiss/pages/items9/sw00950.html (accessed April 17, 2013), item SW00950.