Tripod stand
a design by
Thomas Hope
(1769–1831)
about 1802
Medium/TechniqueMahogany
DimensionsHeight and Diameter: 63.2 x 30.2 cm (24 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Horace Wood Brock
Accession number2010.1040
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On viewClassificationsFurniture
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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.
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).
