Plant Stand

1879-1884

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Manufacturer: Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company
Manufacturer: Longwy Faience Company

Plant Stand

1879-1884

Physical Qualities Brass, glazed earthenware, 33 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (85.7 x 34.3 cm.)

Credit Line Albert H. Cousins Memorial Fund; and purchase with exchange funds from Gift from the Estate of Margaret Anna Abell; Friends of the American Wing Fund; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Steiner in Memory of Bernard C. Steiner; and Gift of Merrell L. Stout, Jr. in Memory of his Father, Dr. Merrell L. Stout

Object Number 2005.157

A marriage of art and industry, this plant stand represents the vogue for “Art Brass Goods,” including lamp bases, mirror surrounds, easels, small tables and stands for plants, journals, or umbrellas. Meriden, Connecticut, was a center for production of these objects during the last quarter of the 19th century. With its architectural framework and stylized naturalistic ornamentation, the plant stand represents an international confluence. French ceramics designed in the Persian taste are set into brasswork reminiscent of the machinery that made mass production possible. Bradley & Hubbard featured this particular model on the back cover of their catalogue in the early 1880s.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purhcase, 2005; Margot Johnson, New York

Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio, "A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement," Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, 2005, no. 12. (exh. cat.)

Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio, "American Art Brass," "The Magazine Antiques," October 2005, p. 100.

"BMA Today," Summer 2006, ill. p. 17.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Annual Report, 2006, no. 9, ill.