Pedestal
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1875
MediumEbonized and gilt wood
DimensionsOverall: 19 × 19 1/4 × 20 inches (48.26 × 48.9 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: The Ever Glades Fund. Selected by the curators in honor of Landon Rowland
Object number2018.30.2
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DescriptionThe wooden pedestal has been ebonized, which gives it a dark brown/black coloration. The pedestal has a square base from which arched element rises. This arched element is enhanced on its vertical sides with delicate, shallowly carved, thin lines and scroll work that are gilded. A fluted drum, the recesses of which are gilded, rises above the arched element. The base of this drum is composed of wide, flat petal-, or tongue-shaped elements, each separated by a stripe of gilding. The top of the circular fluted drum is flat and square, its dimensions matching that of the bottom square base. Below each corner of the square top of the pedestal, are decorative elements that together read almost like a capital for the drum. As with each of the other zones that compose this pedestal, this area is also decorated with thin, shallowly carved designs that are gilded.ProvenanceWith Conner-Rosenkranz LLC, early 1990s;
Purchased from Conner-Rosenkranz LLC by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2018 [1].
[1] The pedestal was acquired in the same transaction as James Henry Haseltine, America Triumphant, accession number TBD.
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