A Chippendale Carved Mahogany Pie-Crust Tilt-Top Candlestand

Joseph Kindig & Son, York, Pennsylvania;

Reginald Lewis, Easton, Maryland;

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., Property of the Estate of the Late Reginald M. Lewis, March 24, 1961, lot 109;

Frank L. Horton

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Art Museum, A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts, August-November 2005

John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture. New York, 1970, pp. 130-131, fig. 128;

Arden Root, "Living with Antiques in the South," Magazine Antiques, May 1975, pp. 959, 961;

A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts. Charlottesville, VA: The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 2005, pp. 92-93

Top not original to base, patches to pie crust edge, cracks to pie crust edge, brass catch has been replaced, incongruent marks on underside of top for birdcage.
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