The BMA’s two columns are part of a group of six that originally decorated the Tiffany Studios showrooms at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street. A pamphlet celebrating Louis Comfort Tiffany’s new retail location described the columns’ style as “Pompeiian Ionic order.” (The capitals and bases are actually made of plaster and concrete rather than marble). When Tiffany Studios declared bankruptcy in 1932, the six columns were removed to Tiffany’s estate on Long Island. After the main house burned in 1957, the columns, which had been stored in a stable, eventually came to market.