Philadelphia Queen Anne Figured Walnut Tilt Top Dish Top Candle Stand

Circa 1760, a circular dish top, battens to underside, birdcage support with urn-shaped columns, donut and key, ring-turned standard with suppressed ball, tripod base with raised snake feet, notched elements at base of standard and below knee.

28.75 x 23 x 22.5 in.

From the Collection of Colonel and Mrs. Gordon Roberts, Fayetteville, North Carolina

Florene Maine, Ridgefield, CT; E. Renee Shourds, Philadelphia, PA; Furniture and Decorative and Fine Arts From The Collection of Meyer & Vivian Potamkin, Sotheby's New York, lot 241, May 22, 2003.

Literature: The Magazine Antiques, Florene Maine advertisement, July 1961, p.9.

Light scratching to top; side of one foot with old one-inch chip and loss; overall very good estate condition; birdcage and underside of top retaining crackled old surface.

$1,000 - 2,000