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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
Pen Tray
Maker
Edward F. Caldwell & Company
(1895 - 1959)
Date1918
Mediumbrass, gilding
DimensionsOverall: 1 × 10 3/8 × 3 9/16 in. (2.5 × 26.4 × 9 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.181
DescriptionThe rectangular gilt-brass pen tray in the Renaissance style, made en suite with the large inkwell (1922.2.180), is supported on four small ball feet. The tray is decorated with filigree plates attached with small pins. Each of the two long sides has a crowned lion’s head in the center on a field of leafy floral scrolls. The short sides have the same filigree leafy floral scrolls.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 viewcirca 1918
circa 1918
Object/Object