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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
Floor Lamp
Maker
Oscar B. Bach
(1884 - 1957)
Date1913-1923
Mediumcast iron, gilding
DimensionsOverall: 72 1/2 × 12 × 12 in. (184.2 × 30.5 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.59
DescriptionThe cast-iron electric floor lamp made by Oscar B. Bach has a base pierced with masks and scrolls and a long rope-twisted standard with a four-part pierced and scrolled ornament in the middle. A crown-like ornament pierced with shields and scrolls is attached just below the candle light. The finial is the flattened and conventionalized head of a unicorn. The whole was gilded, but much of it has worn.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 view1920-1930
circa 1917
circa 1917