Regency Music Stands

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...

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

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...

This Regency adjustable mahogany music stand may also be used as a library stand to hold a decorative open book. The top features an adjustable panel with detachable bottom support a...

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...

Early 20th century English Canterbury of mahogany designed in the Regency style with three divided compartments for music or magazines, beautifully turned uprights on each corner, an...

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.

19th century English Regency converting music stand occasional table This English Regency Period adjustable mahogany music stand is very unusual. It converts from an occasional ta...

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...

An early 19th century adjustable lectern. Warm mahogany with brass candle holders with extending arms. The reeded central column with urn and tripod ca...

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...