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Pulpit Model With Staircase (France)
This is a Pulpit Model with Staircase. It is dated mid-19th century and we acquired it in 2007. Its medium is carved, inlaid, marquetried, and veneered walnut, pear, and oak. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
The technical skills featured in this model indicate it is a compagnonnage masterwork. A spiral stairway leads to a carved pulpit attached to a central column, both with molded paneling. The canopy is scroll-carved and the base is inlaid with a lozenge pattern. André-Jacob Roubo’s book, L’art du menuisier (1769–75), depicts a similarly formed pulpit.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled A Staircase to Heaven?.
This object was
donated by
Eugene V. Thaw and Clare E. Thaw.
It is credited Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
- Drawing, View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper .
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1911-28-293
- Model for a Pulpit
- oak.
- Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
- 2007-45-3
- Venetian Palazzo Architectural Model
- ivory, wood.
- Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
- 2013-3-4
Our curators have highlighted 8 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Chaise (USA)
- rosewood veneer, oak (frame), velvet upholstery.
- Gift of Mrs. Edwin Gould.
- 1937-4-1
- Book Illustration, L'art du menuisier, vol. 1; Plan et elevation d’une...
- engraving on paper.
- Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- SIL39088009478231
- Staircase Model (England)
- mahogany.
- Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
- 2007-45-15
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 70 x 40.6 x 33 cm (27 9/16 x 16 x 13 in.)
Cite this object as
Pulpit Model With Staircase (France); carved, inlaid, marquetried, and veneered walnut, pear, and oak; H x W x D: 70 x 40.6 x 33 cm (27 9/16 x 16 x 13 in.); Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw; 2007-45-13
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces—The Eugene & Clare Thaw Gift.
