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Not on viewLight Stands
DateMid 1700s
Dimensions45.69 cm (18 in.)
MarkingsLabel: "Aunt Polly Hancock, 1770/ Cambridge, Mass./ died the summer of 1829/ between eighty and ninety years of age/ lived near Christ Church on the Common next/ to the school-house."
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberF709
DescriptionWalnut. Light stand--dish top. Queen Anne style. Unusually large. Base turned in urn form; slender "snake" feet.
Tolman Catalog, Tolman Number 11: "Round Candle-Stand, tripod, raised edge. From Mrs. Polly Hancock, who died in 1829."
Tolman Catalog, Tolman Number 11: "Round Candle-Stand, tripod, raised edge. From Mrs. Polly Hancock, who died in 1829."