Abstract: The display stage includes a top and bottom compartments. The top compartment is defined by a translucent horizontal wall having a front end, and top and bottom surfaces extending rearwardly from the front end to a translucent backwall having front and rear surfaces. The bottom compartment is defined by an angular wall extending downwardly from the horizontal-wall front end and has a reflective surface facing the bottom surface of the horizontal wall. A light source behind the compartments provides illumination of an article disposed on the horizontal wall, by directing light at both at the rear surface of the backwall and the reflective surface of the angular wall.

Abstract: The present invention is an article-display stage of the type including a horizontal article-surface for display of an thereon, a backwall, and means to illuminate the article. The inventive article-display stage includes a top and bottom compartments. The top compartment includes a translucent horizontal wall having a front end, the article-support surface and a bottom surface extending rearwardly from the front end to the backwall which is translucent and has front and rear surfaces. The bottom compartment includes an angular wall that extends downwardly from the horizontal-wall front end and has a reflective surface facing the bottom surface of the horizontal wall. A light source behind the compartments provides dual back-and-bottom illumination of the article by directing light both at the rear surface for diffused back-light illumination through the backwall and at the reflective surface for diffused reflected up-light illumination through the horizontal wall.