Bench

Date1917-1918

Mediumwalnut, velvet upholstery

DimensionsOverall: 17 3/4 × 39 1/4 × 18 in. (45.1 × 99.7 × 45.7 cm)

Credit LineReynolda Estate

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number1922.2.152

DescriptionThe six-legged walnut bench in the William and Mary style with cut-velvet upholstery has carved inverted balusters for legs and six Spanish feet (curled inward at bottom). The legs are tied together underneath with a complicated arrangement of molded stretchers. The stretchers on the two long sides are arched, each with six ornaments resembling fiddlehead ferns arranged as crowns. The upholstery was replaced, perhaps in the 1940s.
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