Collections: Decorative Arts: Pilaster

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)
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, 5th floor
Accession Number: 40.931.4
Credit Line: Gift of the Young Men's Christian Association, Flatbush Branch
Image: Group, 40.931.3_40.931.4_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.