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Pilaster

Medium: Painted pine
Place Collected: Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1835
Dimensions: 132 x 16 x 3 in. (335.3 x 40.6 x 7.6 cm)
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Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, American Landscape/Colony to Nation, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 40.931.3
Credit Line: Gift of the Young Men's Christian Association, Flatbush Branch
Image: Detail, 40.931.3_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: White painted pine. Simple, vertical rectangular form with single shallow conforming rectangular recessed center, raised on simple rectangular plinth, and capped by hybrid Ionic/Corinthian capital in three sections: elaborately carved central area, shaped undulating molding above, and flat molding below. Condition: Good. See conservation report in file. Conserved January and February, 2000.

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