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Oct 22, 2025
18th century, an exceptional example of this rare form, tall and finely wrought, with brass finial and knop, adjustable double candle arm, 65-1/2 x 20 x 13 in.
Provenance: Hollis Brodrick; Tonnesen Collection, New Hampshire
Note: A very closely related example associated with Joseph Moulton of Newburyport, Massachusetts sold Sotheby's 19 January 2002, "The Collection of Mr. And Mrs. Lamont Dupont Copeland" lot 31. That example shares with this one closely related turned brass knop and base plate, with similarly formed wrought iron legs, but lacks the brass finial found on the example offered here. For other similar examples see Cooke, Lighting in America, fig. 1, p. 102 and fig. 2, p. 103, Butler, Candleholders in America: 1650-1900, p. 44, left image, Hayward, "Iron in Early American Lighting," Antiques Magazine, May 1923, p. 224, and Montgomery & Ward, "Iron Candlestands," Antiques Magazine, August 1977, pg. 228-284.
Hollis Brodrick; Tonnesen Collection, New Hampshire
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