Unidentified
Lamp Stand
1820-1830
Physical Qualities
Grained wood; with stenciled and freehand gilt, polychrome, and bronzed decoration; brass mounts (some replaced), 62 3/8 in. H (158.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Friends of the American Wing Fund
Object Number
1992.215
An oil lamp once perched atop this tall Baltimore-made column to cast a wide circle of illumination, like a modern torchère or floor lamp. Energetically turned and boldly decorated in a variety of techniques, the lampstand typifies the vigor of early 19th-century Baltimore painted furniture.
Wilson family of Baltimore; by descent to Mrs. William D. Poultney
William Voss Elder, III, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, "Baltimore Painted Furniture", April 18-June 4, 1972, pp. 52-55. Wendy A. Cooper,
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, CLASSICAL TASTE IN AMERICA 1800-1840, June 27-September 26, 2023, p. 106, 291, cat.# 69; circulated to Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, CLASSICAL TASTE IN AMERICA 1800-1840, June 27-September 26, 2023, p. 106, 291, cat.# 69; circulated to Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Maker
Unidentified
