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II.19 Stands
Maker: unknown
Place:German
Date:16th cent.
Materials:wood, gilt brass
Dimensions:length 240 mm
Current inventory:709
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This support consists of eight turned wooden leg sections and a tip. The ornamentation suggests the item formed part of a box of mining instruments. Brought to Florence from Germany by Prince Mattias de' Medici in the first half of the seventeenth century.

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