Gilt Music Stands

Place your Bible or music book on this antique, double-sided slanted page rest. Crafted in France, circa 1890 and standing on a tripartite base with three curved legs over a spiral t...

Place your Bible on this elegant antique book stand. Crafted in Italy circa 1780, the lectern sits on four legs over a scalloped apron, and features hand carved details on all four sides. The bookstand design...

Display your Bible on this antique adjustable polychrome and gilt free standing book holder. Crafted in Italy circa 1860 and rectangular in shape, the small lectern...

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...

An antique Aesthetic Movement music stand offers ebonized walnut construction with carved and pierced crest having flanking finials over portfolio with oversized burl inset reserve s...

Beautiful music stand in golden brass. Featuring a refined Baroque style decoration with numerous curls and swirls. Perfect to be placed on the ground. The support base for the books...

Place your Bible, music sheet or a recipe book on this antique, rococo book stand. Crafted in Spain, circa 1860, the decorative lectern sits on small tripod and features hand carved ...

This decorative coat of arms music sheet holder is made from lightly gilt bronze and brass and was produced circa 1870. Supported by an easel sta...

Place your Bible on this antique, baroque book stand. Crafted in Italy circa 1760, the lectern sits on two folding legs decorated with scalloped edge, and features hand painted gilt ...

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...

Great wire work 1960s record rack or storage unit. For 33rpm and 45rpm records. Original old gilt finish to the metal Highly sculptural.  

This antique silver gilt wooden book holder, or table lectern, is from Italy and dates to the latter half of the 1800s. It is all carved wood, with a layer of gesso, some old silver ...