Candlestand
- Object Name:
- Candlestand
- Object ID:
- 1978.008.03
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Candlestand. Tripod. Octagonal tilt-top decorated at center with a diamond formed of light and dark diagonal banding. Shaft with cylindrical base and top, between which is an elongated baluster turning encircled by three bands of decorative incised lines. Three serpentine legs with rectilinear cross-sections and tapered feet. two cleats and turning block of birch; rotating wooden catch, oval in shape, screwed near one of its ends to underside of table top. Underside of top has beveled edges.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-32.125 W-20 D-12.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Believed to have history of use in legator's family; various branches of the Page and Martin families were living c.1810 in Warner and Dunbarton, NH. Used in donor's home until her death.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Mary F. Martin
- People:
- Martin, Mary F. (1899-1978)
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