Record Details

Tripod Base Round Stand

Artist Artist unidentified

Date1850 - 1875

Place/RegionProbably Mount Lebanon, New York

MediumCherry

Dimensions26 × 20 × 19 3/4"
Weight: 11 lb.

Credit LineGift of Robert Bishop

Accession number1992.10.3

Description

The design of the Shaker round stand is based on Federal tables made at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Shaker designs tended to be conservative and changed little throughout most of the nineteenth century.

Elizabeth V. Warren and Stacy C. Hollander, "Tripod Base Round Stand," Expressions of a New Spirit: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 1989), 127