This monopodium, or tripod stand, whose top, through means of a slider and a screw, can be raised or lowered, corresponds precisely to a drawing and description in Thomas Hope’s Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), which introduced the term “interior decoration” into the English language. Regency designers took inspiration from archeological sources from Greece and Rome, striving to reproduce antique forms of decoration and incorporating symbols, such as monopodia, from the ancient world.