Jardinières & stands
Hello again antique friends, long time ago.
If the 19th century was the period of the jardiniére, the last half of the 18th century was the zenith of the stand.
Stands were in abundance in antique luxury houses. There were stands for busts,antique candles, basins, Chinese jars, urns and even for tea kettles. They were fashioned out of delicately carved giltwood, wire and gesso, simulated bamboo, mahogany, satinwood and other fine woods.
These 18th-century styles were revived in the 1860s but by 1910 the Tottenham Court Road ‘art furnishers and decorators’, Norman and Stacey, were meeting a new public demand with carved hardwood examples imported from the Far East.
The relatively simple antique flower stand that is now recognized as a jardiniére has eevolved from a very complicated article. In the early 1800s, when the term was first used, ingenious designs abounded, so much so that George Smith’s 1826 Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers Guide even contained a modest proposal for a combined jardiniére and aviary. Today we finished with our antique topic.