Library Table

Maker Edward F. Caldwell & Company (1895 - 1959)

Date1918

Mediumwalnut and walnut marquetry veneer

DimensionsOverall: 31 × 84 × 29 7/8 in. (78.7 × 213.4 × 75.9 cm)

Credit LineReynolda Estate

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number1922.2.49

DescriptionThis long, rectangular table is supported by eight twist-turned legs topped with Corinthian capitals. The legs are supported on large square feet carved with anthemion. Six legs are at the table's ends (three each), while two support the middle. Thick carved stretchers tie the medial legs together, while gently curved stretchers flank the center leg of three and tie them to the legs at the corners. The table's top consists of a wide border carved with lambrequins and framing a smaller marquetry border on a field of walnut veneer. The table's skirt is elaborately carved with masks and leafy scrolls in the style of the Renaissance.

The table is attributed to Edward F. Caldwell & Company (1895-1959), New York City, on the basis of a photograph that survives in the Caldwell Archives in the Library of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

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