Lot Essay
For a similar pedestal, see Fitzgerald, Four Centuries of American Furniture (Radnor, Pennsylvania, 1995), fig. IX-30, p. 239.
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AMERICAN, CIRCA 1870
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A RENAISSANCE REVIVAL EBONIZED AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED PEDESTAL
American, circa 1870
The stepped square top with shaped pendant edges of bird's-eye maple above a shaped pilaster-form support centered by a copper female-profile medallion and foliate-inlay and mounted by two ormolu female-busts, on a molded bird's-eye maple base with bracket feet, all on an ebonized ground with gilt-incised detailing
41in. high, 14in. wide
American, circa 1870
The stepped square top with shaped pendant edges of bird's-eye maple above a shaped pilaster-form support centered by a copper female-profile medallion and foliate-inlay and mounted by two ormolu female-busts, on a molded bird's-eye maple base with bracket feet, all on an ebonized ground with gilt-incised detailing
41in. high, 14in. wide