A GEORGE II CARVED MAHOGANY CANDLE STAND CIRCA 1750 With 'pie crust' moulded top 53cm high, the top 32cm diameter Provenance:The Hague Collection. Sir Harry Hague(1881-1960)The Chantry, HertfordshireBy direct descent to the current ownerLoaned to the National Trust in 1966The entrepreneur Sir Harry Hague was themanaging director of A.Wander Ltd. Thpany manufactured the chocolatemalt drink Ovaltine. At the time of the SecondWorld War, Ovaltine was one of the mostpopular brands in Britain; it was the officialdrink of the 1948 Olympics and was carried upMount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.For a tripod table of the period incorporating related carving to the stem, see Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Antique Collectors' Club, 1983, page 295.