Early 19th Century Music Stands

A sublime William IV Mahogany Adjustable Music Stand in exceptional condition. The wide rectangular top has a hinged mahogany drop accompanied by two small brass uprights to hold th...

This is an antique three tier music stand. An English, rosewood whatnot with articulated lectern rest, dating to the Regency period, circa 1820. Delightful music stand, with fine R...

Beautiful antique mahogany music stand / book stand in perfect and original condition. Beautiful patina. It can be used as a side table, music stand or as a book stand. Top is adjust...

A stunning quality and fine early 19th century Regency period mahogany canterbury. The four divisions, all of solid mahogany with tu...

English Walnut tripod telescopic music stand with central lyre and acorn finial, carved lotus bulbous pedestal, flanking brass candle holders, and resting on the original bun feet. E...

A rare and unusual Palais Royal gilded ormolu and Mother of Pearl music box, in the form of a cherub playing a harp, a velvet lined drawer for jewelery, a cherub seated on a stool while playing the Harp, hooks hanging from the Harp to hold rings, necklaces or braclets. Circa 1810 For collectors of thimbles needlework tools, and needlework boxes some of the most beautiful and sought-after pieces are known collectively as ‘Palais Royal’. The name refers to the Palace in Paris, built for Cardinal...

19th century metamorphic walnut music stand. Begins as a table at 31" high and when spun it twists upward on an iron thread to a sitting duet stand height and with further twisting, it moves upward to a standing duet height. Remarkable for those collecting regency metamorphic furniture...

With hinged trellis adjustable holder and hinged folding book rest raised on a reeded support headed by a brass knob to adjust height, raised on three saber legs with cup casters. Li...

With dual adjustable hinged trellis music rests, reeded column support with three splayed legs with brass ball feet. Signed on brass disc on top center.

Music stand or lectern in brass and inlaid mahogany wood England, circa 1830 It measures 55.5" high x 18.22 x 12.79 (141 x 46.3 x 32.5 cm) It weighs 9.7 lb (4.4 kg) State of conservation: good, except for a tin weld on the joint fixing the mahogany board to the brass bar. This is a piece of functional furniture, designed to support a musical score for instruments such as the violin, viola or other wind instruments. The task of holding the score is entrusted to an inclined mahogany wood surface, while the supporting structure confers grace and character: here practical function and aesthetic beauty are perfectly combined. The foundation of the stand, resting on onion-shaped turned feet, is a flat tripod base decorated with floral brass inlays. This in turn supports a truncated conical element of turned and partially gilded wood into which a brass rod with a shaped tip has been inserted. By sliding the wooden board up and down, it is possible to adjust the height of the musical score. The lectern, like many pieces of ancient furniture, was created with a functional purpose: the intention of providing support to an open book or musical score. Moving away from this ancient liturgical purpose, the function and appearance of these pieces of furniture evolved through time: first, in the ???e??? (logheion, pulpit or tribune, the place from which it is read) and then, through the medieval legivum, it was gradually transformed into the support located in the center of the choir on which missals and sheet music rested. The support tool as we know it today derives from this, in all its shapes and material variations: fixed or portable, for the floor or table, from the oldest stone to metal or wooden versions. Over time the lectern has therefore adapted to fit the most varied uses, appearing in countless artistic and literary images, as well as, inevitably, a decorative accessory. Its practical modern use, which links it inextricably to the history of literature and music, has allowed cabinet makers and designers to imagine and to create multiple variations of it. In this case, even if different in form, the use of mahogany and brass finds technical structural confirmation in other contemporary works, such as the lyre-shaped music lectern of the Turin Museum of Palazzo Madama. This is associated with a wooden tripod equipped with an adjustable wooden screw, brass clips and connecting pin (Museo Civico d'Arte Antica di Torino. Acquisti e doni 1971-2001, p. 187 scheda n. 712). And it is similar to a very ingenious portable lectern...

A charming and very fine quality regency period rosewood Reading, or lamp, table having superbly figured oblong top with cross Banded decoration and ratcheted centre section over o...

Shield shaped top and adjustable brass arrow form support, triangular black painted iron.