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Your Price: $ 4500.00
Item Number: brstd0001
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Circa: 1880
Condition: fine
Size: 14inch dia top X 30inch ht.
Country of Origin: United States
Manufacturer: unknown
This is a previously unpublished example of American Aesthetic Movement brass furniture. only marked with a cast in iron patent date, April 18th & May 16th, 1882, no maker has yet been attributed, but this piece is surely in the manner of companies like Parker Bros, Meriden Britannia Company, Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing and others of that caliber.
An exhibit of similar stands and related design brass and mixed metal objects was put on in 2007 at Bard Graduate Center, NY, NY. entitled "A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement."
The Aesthetic movement was a late-19th -century artistic movement in England and America. Formed in reaction to the so-called philistine tastes of the middle class, it espoused art for art’s sake while denying any social or moral value in art. (Both James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde were advocates, and were thoroughly lampooned in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience.) In America the movement was introduced at the American Centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. It remained popular in this country through the 1880s and was particularly evident in the decorative arts, as manufacturers created innovative and artistic applications of industrial metals that were visually and materially complex and called "art brass" or "artistic bronze goods." Art brass maximized industrial mass production techniques and helped to set the stage for 20th -century decorative arts that would also utilize tubular metals and other industrial materials in the creation of decorative household goods.
This stand represents an outstanding example of 19th century American Art Brass.
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