Pedestal
- Object Name:
- Pedestal
- Object ID:
- 2013.500.081
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Pair of matching pedestals, disassembled. Black painted wood. Rotating red velvet upholstered tops with steel shafts. Many pieces broken or missing. One column has an oval medallion with applied decoration. The other column has a blank medallion.
- Material:
- Wood
Textile - Dimensions:
- H-37.5 W-16 D-16 inches
- Provenance:
- These are almost certainly the pedestals that were given by Edward and Julia Stell Tuck together with marble busts of Benjamin Franklin (1912.005.01) and William Shorter Stell (1912.005.02).
Placed on long-term loan at the Franklin Pierce Homestead in Hillsborough, NH, in the 1950s. Returned 10/02/2013. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Tuck, Edward (1842-1938), Tuck, Julia Stell (1850-1928), Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790), Stell, William (1800-1863)
- Subjects:
- Pedestals
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