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Candle Stand (torchère) (2 of 2)
Thomas Chippendale (British, 1718–1779)
c. 1773
- Medium
- Gilt-wood, gesso
- Classification
- Furniture and woodwork
- Dimensions
- 154 x 56 x 51 cm (60 5/8 x 22 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- England, 18th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This gilded candle stand 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, this candle stand exhibits 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.
