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    "localId": "296871",
    "label": "Pair of Candle Stands (torchères)",
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    "id": "296871",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pair of Candle Stands (torchères)",
    "description": "This pair of gilded candle stands 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, these candle stands exhibit Chippendale’s masterful understanding of neoclassical proportion, scale, and ornament. His landmark book of furniture designs, <em>The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director </em>(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.",
    "date": "c. 1773",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.203",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Each: 154 x 56 x 51 cm (60 5/8 x 22 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "Gilt-wood, gesso",
    "tombstone": "Pair of Candle Stands (torchères), c. 1773. Thomas Chippendale (British, 1718–1779). Gilt-wood, gesso; each: 154 x 56 x 51 cm (60 5/8 x 22 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2018.203",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "didYouKnow": "Candle stands usually held silver or crystal candelabra that were lit for evening entertainment.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Tipping. H. Avray. \"Brockett Hall-III: The Seat of Sir Charles Nall-Cain.\"<em> Country Life </em>58, no. 1489 (July 18, 1925) 96-103.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 97, pl. 2"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Tipping, H. Avray. <em>English Homes, Period VI - Volume 1, Late Georgian, 1760-1820</em>. London: Offices of Country Life, 1926.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 19, plate 30"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gilbert, Christopher. <em>The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale.</em> London: Studio Vista, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 263 (v. 1); Reproduced: p. 10, figs. 18 & 19 (v. 2) ; p. 209, (v. 2) figs. 381-381"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Christie's London. <em>Important English Furniture</em>. July 7, 1994. no. 100.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 120; Reproduced: p. 121"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Christie's London. <em>Important English Furniture</em>. November 16, 1995. Lot 357.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 178; Reproduced: p. 179"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lennox-Boyd, Edward. <em>Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collectio</em>n. London: Christie's Books, 1998.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 96-97; Mentioned: pp. 95-96."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Christie's London. <em>Thomas Chippendale: 300 Years</em>. July 5, 2018, Lot 9.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p 56; Reproduced: p. 57"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Harrison, Stephen. “Acquisitions 2018: Decorative Art and Design.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 10-12.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 12",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2019-02/page/n5/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>Burlington Magazine </em>163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 96, no. 5"
        }
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    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
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    "galleryDonorText": "Paul J. and Edith Ingalls Vignos Gallery",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 21:17:38.876000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.203/2018.203_print.jpg",
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    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
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