19th Century French Adjustable Sculptor's Stand

A 19th Century French Country farm table or work table from Normandy. Made of solid cherry wood with two sliding doors along the front and one deep dovetailed drawer at the end, each...

An early 20th century French woven wicker sewing stand with sturdy rattan frame and red reeded open basket form with top handle. Perfect for use as a side table or plant stand. Good ...

A 19th century French Louis XVI style adjustable swivel stool made of solid hand carved walnut with x-stretcher and wood finials. The seat of this small stool may be easily adjusted ...

A 19th century French Louis XV style adjustable swivel stool made of solid rosewood with hand-carved details, sturdy curved legs and decorative wood finial. Covered in original peti...

A 19th Century French faux bamboo cherry wood stand with folding mirror. Sturdy tripod base with divided drawer and marble top. Trifold mirror has brass trim and is backed with decor...

A 19th Century French Beaux Arts gilt wood picture frame. Fine quality heavy gilded molding. Very good condition with minor losses. Nice scale for use as a mirror frame. Circa 1880-...

A wonderful 19th century French oak and pine sculptor's stand with a top that rotates around a peg, and a shelf at the bottom originally used to store the artist's tools. Today is th...

This nineteenth-century handmade grain wooden sculptor's table, in all probability from France, is ready to hold any work of art. It is a sculptors pedestal...

with working foot petal

- This sculptor's modelling stand is usable and in working order - It also creates an atmospheric aesthetic as a display stand for sculpture, object or lamp. - It has been used for decades and accumulated different materials and colours giving it a unique patina. Heavy duty and versatile modelling stand. Tubular aluminium legs, which can be folded for storage and transport. The feet are constructed from steel rollers mounted in gun metal castings and can be locked. Fitted with a 35.5cm (14”) top made of 25mm (1”) exterior grade plywood. This is mounted on a pair of quadrant castings, which enables the stand to be tilted and locked for low relief work. The top also locks in a vertical position for storage and transport. The height is adjusted with the heavy duty screw thread and lock nut. Measures: Adjustable Height - 104cm to 130cm Depth of tripod base - 69cm Width of tripod base - 69cm Square wooden top - 35cm Double plywood top thickness - 5cm Alec Tiranti Ltd has been a leading supplier of sculptors equipment since the 19th century. Giovanni (John) Tiranti founded the Company in 1895, as John Tiranti & Co., in High Holborn, and within a year moved to Foley Street, London W1. He later moved to 13 Maple Street, W1, where the Company became John Tiranti Ltd. The Company remained there until 1941, when the building was destroyed by a direct hit with a bomb. Giovanni Tiranti died in 1926, and his two sons Alec and Dom carried on. Throughout all this time the Company sold sculptor's tools, materials and equipment as well as new and antiquarian books...

This sturdy work table is made of solid hardwood. The top bears the marks left from many projects over the last one and a half centuries. Variations in the color and texture on the t...

A fine and rare, beautifully restored American Classical period sewing stand work table in mahogany and rosewood. Elegantly sophisticated, this scarce antique is a wonderful example of high quality early 19th century American craftsmanship. Exhibiting fine detail throughout, the exquisitely handcrafted work table features a hinged shaped top with rounded corners, curved concave front, stunning highly figured matched rosewood inlay complimented by mahogany cross banded edge, set over a conforming shaped case. Lifting the top opens to reveal a fitted interior divided into eight compartments, including a hinged lid with built-in flip-up pin cushion, various size shaped lids are finished in mahogany accented by contrasting satinwood string banded border, a faux drawer front with contrasting mother-of-pearl escutcheon rests above a single frieze drawer with hand carved dovetail joinery and original turned wooden pull. Below, a perfectly proportioned carved, turned and fluted solid mahogany central pedestal rises from a shaped platform base, in true Empire fashion, the base is further raised on ornately carved paw feet. Beautiful, rich antique mahogany color...