Set of five gilt wood tripod stands of carved and gilded beechwood. Each with a stepped circular top carved with a disgonally fluted cavetto moulding, is supported on three winged griffin monpodial legs and a central foliate baluster stem, the whole mounted on a tripod plinth with concave sides. Each pedestal is designed around a support of three griffins with outstretched wings and a palmette leaf on each breast. Their design is inspired by an ancient marble fragment found in Rome and engraved by the architect Charles Heathcote Tatham, whose highly influential 'Etchings … of Ancient Ornamental Architecture of 1799', provided the source for the design. The pedestals are part of a set which numbered nine (of which five survive), supplied for Carlton House.