A Pair of carved and gilded torchers, the scallop shaped tops above gadrooning and carved husks, the legs similarly decorated with bell flower stems and terminating in scroll feet.

These magnificent tripod stands are designed in the George II French picturesque or Modern fashion, popularised in England by Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Directors (1754-1762). A further influence on these stands can clearly be seen from Louis Quatorze patterned torchères, featured in Daniel Marot's, ‘Nouveaux Livre d'Orfeverie, 1703’.

Commissions with similar husk decoration and Roman acanthus, can be found on bacchic altar-tripod stands executed for Harewood House, Yorkshire. These were based on Chippendale's designs and have been dated to around 1760 (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, figs. 376 and 377).

The quality of carving, scale and level of detail show that  these were made by one of the leading cabinet makers in England during the 1750s, and it is certainly possible that they are a Chippendale commission.