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The tapestry upholstery, rendered in shades of pink, brown and blue is surrounded at the outer edge by a ribbon with plain brown ground and pale blue stripe entwined with pink and blue tendrils and flowers. The center of the tapestry is a wooded landscape with a castle or manor house in the background situated on a river or lake. In the foreground are two male figures. The figure on right is a gentleman in knee britches holding a long bow aloft in one hand and a large hat in the other, while a hound sits at his side. The figure on the left holds a long rifle or musket aloft while walking with a dog and carrying a pouch. The scene is enclosed by a Mannerist scrolled frame. The stool, which was upholstered over the rail and attached to the frame with round-headed tacks, has on the sides a continuous brown band displaying a floral meander in blue and pink.
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
Stool
Datecirca 1918
Mediumwood (walnut) and tapestry
DimensionsOverall: 21 × 25 3/4 × 21 3/4 in. (53.3 × 65.4 × 55.2 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.213
DescriptionThe William-and-Mary-style stool is from a suite of benches and stools (1922.22.207-213) covered with tapestries displaying pastoral landscapes and scenes of peasants at various pursuits. The stool is supported on four legs of decorated double-scroll form tied together with flat molded, shaped and notched stretchers. All legs are raised on carved tassel-shaped feet.The tapestry upholstery, rendered in shades of pink, brown and blue is surrounded at the outer edge by a ribbon with plain brown ground and pale blue stripe entwined with pink and blue tendrils and flowers. The center of the tapestry is a wooded landscape with a castle or manor house in the background situated on a river or lake. In the foreground are two male figures. The figure on right is a gentleman in knee britches holding a long bow aloft in one hand and a large hat in the other, while a hound sits at his side. The figure on the left holds a long rifle or musket aloft while walking with a dog and carrying a pouch. The scene is enclosed by a Mannerist scrolled frame. The stool, which was upholstered over the rail and attached to the frame with round-headed tacks, has on the sides a continuous brown band displaying a floral meander in blue and pink.
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 1917
circa 1918
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