Sentence examples for candle stand from inspiring English sources

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These included Rohlfs's " 'Chinese' Candle Stand," adjustable in height and with a built-in snuffer, and a pair of delicate oak-and-copper "Sylph Stands".

One of the show's apple peelers was cobbled together from a candle stand and a spike from a tin rotisserie spit.

There is a round, green tea table with cabriole legs, a white Empire-style caned chair, two gateleg tables and a candle stand.

But the most extravagant handwork in this show is the bizarrely compelling object created by Eliza Trask, a Maine woman who spent five years pasting tiny seashells and family photographs onto a modified candle stand to commemorate the return of her husband from the war.

Levy is selling their American antiques, including several in the style of Thomas Chippendale: a fine mahogany serpentine-front card table made in New York about 1770; a tripod-base walnut candle stand made in Philadelphia about 1760; and a Samuel Verplanck walnut side chair made in New York about 1760.

Scones and boiled eggs are waiting half eaten, tea stands in dainty cups, coffee is keeping warm over a china candle stand, and in one room an aromatic bowl of punch, scattered clay pipes and an overturned chair suggest that a less genteel scene has just taken place: this room mirrors the very same Hogarth interior in the picture that hangs over the mantelpiece.

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Ms. Duemling said her mother's Chinese export porcelain candlesticks sat on two candle stands in front of the mirrors.

It has an incense burner, candle stands and flower vases decorated with dragons, phoenixes and bats of happiness.

The smell of dust thickened as I walked in, golden candle stands shimmered against Nablusi brickwork, the silence only broken by the gentle steps of the guardian.

There were big pieces (really big in the case of the $700, seven-foot-tall Chinese candle stands) and small ones.

The exhibition will also examine Piranesi's lesser-known interiors and decorative objects, including mantels, chimney pieces, tables, chairs, candle stands, mirrors, sconces, vases, urns and teapots.

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