Pedestal (mid-1700s): Art, History and Details
Pedestal at the Cleveland Museum of Art: mid-1700s, carved, gilded, and painted wood. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Pedestal (mid-1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The coat of arms on this pedestal is that of Cardinal York, the last of the Stuart pretenders to the British throne. He lived out his years in Rome, where he had been made a cardinal of the Church.
Object facts
- Title: Pedestal
- Date: mid-1700s
- Culture: Italy, Rome
- Type: Furniture and woodwork
- Technique: carved, gilded, and painted wood
- Dimensions: Overall: 116.9 x 108 cm (46 x 42 1/2 in.)
- Collection: Furniture
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Accession number: 1967.143
Collection credit
The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
Further reading listed by the museum
- “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 302–346.
- González-Palacios, Alvar. Il Mobile a Roma: Il Settecento. Roma: Ugo Bozzi Editore s.r.l., Edizioni per la Storia dell’Arte, 2024.
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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