Skip to main content
The short sides of the container feature pierced ornaments with the same large bird in the center roundel, now bending toward the ground, flanked by smaller roundels set in a grid with stylized bellflower, leaf, sunburst, etc.
There are four small tabs at the corners of the container that accommodate a removable black granite top (restoration). The reproduction insert has been painted red to emphasize the pierced ornament.
The container is raised on a series of narrow legs and stretchers ornamented with twists and notches and segmented with small collars.
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.
DepartmentRestricted
Console Table
Maker
Oscar B. Bach
(1884 - 1957)
Date1920s
Mediumbronze, brass and iron
DimensionsOverall: 33 1/2 × 43 3/4 × 16 1/2 in. (85.1 × 111.1 × 41.9 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.230
DescriptionThe rectangular fernery of mixed metals is a pierced cast metal stand with a reproduction copper insert. The rectangular holder, in the style of the Renaissance, features on the long sides a large bird (perhaps a stork) in a center roundel flanked by two rows of small stylized ornaments in small roundels, including a grape cluster, bellflower, leaf, sunburst, fig, etc. At each end on the long sides are young satyrs (fauns), one carrying a circle and the other with cymbals. The faun (from the Latin faunus) was a rustic forest god or goddess of Roman mythology often associated with enchanted woods and the Greek god Pan and his satyrs.The short sides of the container feature pierced ornaments with the same large bird in the center roundel, now bending toward the ground, flanked by smaller roundels set in a grid with stylized bellflower, leaf, sunburst, etc.
There are four small tabs at the corners of the container that accommodate a removable black granite top (restoration). The reproduction insert has been painted red to emphasize the pierced ornament.
The container is raised on a series of narrow legs and stretchers ornamented with twists and notches and segmented with small collars.
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