Tilt-Top Stand
1759-1779
Physical Qualities
Mahogany, brass catch on bird cage, iron brace, 28 1/4 x 22 3/8 in. (71.8 x 56.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.305
Chippendale style tilt-top stand with circular dished top with molded rim supported by birdcage of four baluster turning joining square mahogany boards above and below. Compressed ball and column form, on three cabriole legs with ball and claw feet.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore, Maryland; by purchase 1971; David Stockwell, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; Alfred H. Cousins, Jr., Baltimore; Saidee Luttrell Cousins; Elizabeth Beall Hopkins Luttrell; Anna Hunt Tallman Hopkins, Washington, D.C.; Catherine Tallman, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.; Catherine Da Costa, c.1930; Da Costa Family, Philadelphia.
Elder III, William Voss and Jayne E. Stokes. American Furniture 1680-1880: From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1987, p.167-168, ill. 127.
