Table with Corner Chairs

Date1920s

Mediumwood, painted

DimensionsOverall: 32 × 38 3/4 × 38 1/2 in. (81.3 × 98.4 × 97.8 cm) [with chairs pushed in]

Credit LineReynolda Estate

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number2013.1.2a-e

DescriptionThe set of outdoor wooden furniture painted black includes a table (a) and four chairs (b-e). The table has four square tapered legs that support a quatrefoil or four-lobed board top. The legs are joined by two plain stretchers that cross in the middle. The four chairs, with openwork checkerboard seats shaped as corner chairs, are made to fit under the table when the set is not in use. The low square barrel-shaped chair backs, each having many vertical slats, follow the lobed outline of the table top. Two chairs (b and d) have plain stretchers that cross in the middle, one over the other. Two chairs (c and e) have no stretchers. The design of the set may be unique, but its designer/maker has not been identified. Its design derives from many international modern sources, including Scottish, German and Dutch.
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