Girandole

Date1917

Mediumglass and gilded metal

DimensionsOverall (approximate (with glass finial)): 27 1/2 × 16 × 14 in. (69.9 × 40.6 × 35.6 cm)

Credit LineReynolda Estate

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number1922.2.29

DescriptionThis five-light girandole (a branched lighting device), made of gilded metal, has five brackets branching from a single tapered shaft that rises from a circular base with beaded ornament and terminates at the top in a large hollow cut glass finial that slips over the shaft. The candlelight holders are urn shaped with wax cups (bobeches) that have leafy rims curled under. The arms are united with swags of glass beads terminating in pear-shaped faceted prisms attached to the candle arms with rosettes.
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 view