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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
Love Seat
Datecirca 1917
Mediumwalnut, wood, upholstery, silk
DimensionsOverall: 33 1/4 × 54 × 29 3/4 in. (84.5 × 137.2 × 75.6 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.45
DescriptionThe Queen Anne style settee or love seat, upholstered in blue silk damask, has one long seat cushion, walnut legs, serpentine stretchers, a shaped back, and short out-curved arms. The back of the sofa curves gently outward. The straight crest rail has in-curved corners just above where the arms come into the stiles. The three short cabriole front legs have volutes at the top. The three back legs are turned cylinders with blocks above and below where the stretchers join them. Low, flat, scrolled stretchers join the front and back legs, while simply turned stretchers join the three legs across the back.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
