Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2009–June 2011
Pair of vase stands
about 1755
[Role] Thomas Chippendale
H: 18 in.; Diameter of top 10 5/8 in.
Spanish mahogany, marble tops (later)
Classification: Furniture
Culture: English (London)
Accession number: 2010.1034.1-2
Description: Each dished circular top with a gadrooned edge over an icicle-carved apron on boldly carved acanthus-wrapped downswept legs with overscrolled feet on rockwork plinths, one section of icicles on each replaced, the rockwork feet possibly later.
Provenance/Ownership History: 1950/1951, Arthur S. Vernay, Inc., New York. Halsted Billings Vander Poel (b. 1911 - d. 2003), Washington DC; April 8, 2004, Vander Poel estate sale, Christie's, New York, lot 162. By 2009, Horace Wood Brock, New York; 2010, gift of Horace Wood Brock to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)
Gift of Horace Wood Brock