Punch Set

Maker Samuel Kirk & Son Company (founded 1815)

Date1909

Mediumsterling silver

DimensionsOverall (assembled on plateau): 10 × 25 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (25.4 × 64.1 × 64.1 cm)

Credit LineReynolda Estate

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number1922.4.1a-o

DescriptionThis fifteen piece punch set was presented to Mrs. Reynolds by Mr. Reynolds on the occasion of their fourth wedding anniversary in 1909 as noted by the inscriptions on the bottom of the punch bowl and plateau. The deep footed bowl with everted scalloped rim is repoussé-decorated with a pattern of flowers including roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums, and others. The interior bottom is engraved with "KSR" (the initials of Katharine Smith Reynolds). The handle of the double-spout ladle is repoussé-decorated overall with a pattern of flowers including roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums, and others, except for a reserve on the reverse of the terminal, which is engraved with monogram "KSR". The heavy, footed plateau with everted scalloped rim on which the rest of the punch set sits is repoussé-decorated on the rim with a pattern of flowers including roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums, and others. The center is engraved with monogram "KSR". The monogram is surrounded by an elaborate pattern of engraved feathered scrolls. The neoclassical punch cups have a bulbous body with everted rim prominent foot and c-scrolled handle. The repoussé decoration of several different flowers around the body echoes the ornament on the rest of the punch set. The term repoussé refers to a type of decoration in metal rendered in deep relief by pressing or hammering on the reverse. This repoussé floral pattern in silver is typically associated with nineteenth-century Baltimore silversmith Samuel Kirk.
ProvenanceFrom 1964
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, acquired in 1964. [1]

Notes:
[1] In the early 1960s Charles H. Babcock (1899-1967) gave the house and its contents to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The house was then incorporated as a museum and collection (Reynolda House, Inc.) on December 18, 1964 with the signing of the charter at its first board meeting. The museum first opened to the public in September 1965.

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