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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
Sofa
Datecirca 1917
Mediumwalnut, wool and silk tapestry upholstery
DimensionsOverall: 40 × 74 1/2 × 29 1/2 in. (101.6 × 189.2 × 74.9 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.223
DescriptionThis triple-back Jacobean-style sofa with wings has turned walnut legs and stretchers as well as tapestry upholstery. The front legs and stretchers all around are turned in a series of rings, sausages, and slight trumpet turnings. The back legs are squared. The sofa is covered front, wings, and single cushion with a landscape tapestry, of unknown age, with two large fowl on the cushion and a plain castle surrounded by trees in the center of the back. The outside of the sofa is newly upholstered in medium green velvet. The edges of the cushion are finished with twisted welting cord.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
