Stand
- Stand
(Top down): 27 1/8 in. (68.8 cm)
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The Philadelphia price lists describe tables with tops twenty-two inches in diameter as “folding Stands.” Typically they incorporated a box, plain feet, and top, as exemplified by the Bayou Bend stand. The cabinetmakers price lists register a number of options for a relatively simple object: a choice of mahogany or black walnut, with a folding or fixed top, plain or claw feet, the consummate example complete with carved knees and a fluted pillar. The form’s versatility accounts for its widespread popularity and may have prompted the mass production of standardized components.
Related examples: Garrett 1976, p. 755; Bishop and Coblentz 1982, p. 78; Heckscher 1985, pp. 191–92, no. 120; Monkhouse and Michie 1986, p. 135, no. 73; Venable 1989, p. 47, no. 21; Barquist, Garrett, and Ward 1992, pp. 242–47, nos. 129–32.
Book excerpt: Warren, David B., Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
Provenance[Howard “Harry” Arons (1906–2000), Ansonia, Connecticut, by September 1954]; [Ginsburg & Levy, New York, September 1954–October 15, 1954]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, October 15, 1954; given to MFAH, prior to 1969.
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