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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
Demi-lune Console Table
Datecirca 1917
Mediummahogany veneer, wood, paint, gilding
DimensionsOverall: 32 5/8 × 48 7/16 × 16 7/16 in. (82.9 × 123 × 41.8 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.66
DescriptionThe Adamesque demi-lune console table has a black-painted and gilded wood base with four square tapered and fluted legs and a deep skirt having a low-relief frieze of gilded inter-twined diamonds and pointed ovals. The top is veneered in mahogany with a large fan-shaped pattern defined by string inlay and emanating from a conventionalized sunflower in lighter wood.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 view1915-1918
circa 1917
circa 1917
circa 1917
circa 1918
circa 1918