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Little round monopodium or stand
Tripod stand
Little round monopodium or stand
After: Thomas Hope (1769–1831)
English
about 1802
Medium/Technique
Mahogany
Dimensions
Height and Diameter: 63.2 x 30.2 cm (24 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Horace Wood Brock
Accession Number2010.1040
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsFurniture
This monopodium, or tripod stand, whose top, through means of a slider and a screw, can be raised or lowered, corresponds precisely to a drawing and description in Thomas Hope’s Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), which introduced the term “interior decoration” into the English language. Regency designers took inspiration from archeological sources from Greece and Rome, striving to reproduce antique forms of decoration and incorporating symbols, such as monopodia, from the ancient world.
DescriptionThis monopodium, or tripod stand, whose top, through means of a slider and a screw, can be raised or lowered, corresponds precisely to a drawing and description in Thomas Hope’s Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), which introduced the term “interior decoration” into the English language. Regency designers took inspiration from archeological sources from Greece and Rome, striving to reproduce antique forms of decoration and incorporating symbols, such as monopodia, from the ancient world.
ProvenancePossibly by descent from Thomas Hope to his grandson, Lord Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope (b. 1866 - d. 1941), Dorking, Surrey; September 12-19, 1917, possibly in the Lord Pelham Clinton Hope sale, Humbert and Flint, London, lot 921. 2005, Galerie Steinitz, Paris. 2010, Horace Wood Brock, New York; 2010, year-end gift of Horace Wood Brock to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011).