Hexagonal Pedestal with Profile Heads
Date19th century
CultureFrench
MediumOak
ClassificationFurniture
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN1191
This pedestal was fabricated in the nineteenth century to support the sculpture which still sits upon it today, a Mary Magdalene. In photographs in an 1889 catalogue, the statue can be seen upon this pedestal. The pedestal’s five faces, three wide and two more narrow ones, are divided into three registers: the base, the main register, and an upper collar. Each face of the main register features a panel sculpted with floral motifs. Profiles set in floral-bordered medallions appear on the three wider panels. The heads on the side panels are helmeted males, while that on the front is female. Although the heads are typical of furnishings made in the first third of the sixteenth century, these panels can be designated, by merit of their style, as neo-Renaissance productions. The form of the pedestal, moreover, does not correspond to sixteenth-century types.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 03, Wall South
Collections
Early 17th century (?) and 19th century
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