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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.
DepartmentHistoric House
Ashtray with Matchbox Holder
Maker
Edward F. Caldwell & Company
(1895 - 1959)
Datecirca 1917
Mediumcopper with gilding and brass
DimensionsOverall: 4 3/4 × 5 13/16 × 5 13/16 in. (12.1 × 14.8 × 14.8 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.48
DescriptionA gilded metal rectangular holder for a box of wooden matches has a repoussé satyr mask on each of the two solid sides. (Repoussé is a metal-working technique in which low-relief ornament is achieved by careful hammering from behind.) The two short sides are open to allow access to the strikers on a match box. The holder is supported above the center of a square ash tray on a short brass baluster-shaped standard ornamented with acanthus leaves. The square, slightly concave, copper ash tray is surrounded on all sides with low-relief ornament of fruit, swags, masks, and scrolls executed in a style reminiscent of the Renaissance.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.
Status
On viewCollections
circa 1918
1917-1920