Very Rare Green-Painted Windsor Candlestand, probably Chester County or Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Circa 1780

Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America:  Volume II, A Continuing Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of Eighteenth-Century America, 1730-1830, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1987), pp. 29 and 226-7, no. 249, pl. V.

"So often we speak of "original green paint" on Windsor furniture. Here is what it comes to look like when it is completely undisturbed for more than 200 years (in this case, laid over a salmon-color ground). For a piece of Windsor furniture to have survived so long in this pristine condition--without having been overpainted- is remarkably rare.  Similar stands were made with various turning patterns throughout most of the eighteenth century. The top of this piece is held in place by a cross-brace that is mortised into the center post, and the center post is attached to the top of the "stool" with a removable wooden wedge, or key." - Charles Santore, 1987