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The tapestry upholtery, rendered in shades of pink, brown and blue, displays three distinc sections surrounded at the outer edge by a ribbon with plain brown ground an dpale blue stripe entwined with pink and blue tendrils and flowers. The center of the tapestry is a scene of a man wearing a hat, carrying a long pointed stick, and leading a saddled horse in a wooded landscape with a village and mountains in the background. The scene is enclosed by a scrolled frame and flanked by Mannerist ornaments of leafy scrolls and flowers with swans. The bench, which was upholstered over the rail and attached with brass round-head 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
Bench
Datecirca 1918
Mediumwood (walunt) and tapestry
DimensionsOverall: 20 3/4 × 73 × 21 1/2 in. (52.7 × 185.4 × 54.6 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.208
DescriptionThe William-and-Mary-style bench is from a suite of benches and stools (1922.2.207-213) covered with tapestries displaying pastoral landscapes and scenes of peasants at various pursuits. The bench is supported on eight 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 upholtery, rendered in shades of pink, brown and blue, displays three distinc sections surrounded at the outer edge by a ribbon with plain brown ground an dpale blue stripe entwined with pink and blue tendrils and flowers. The center of the tapestry is a scene of a man wearing a hat, carrying a long pointed stick, and leading a saddled horse in a wooded landscape with a village and mountains in the background. The scene is enclosed by a scrolled frame and flanked by Mannerist ornaments of leafy scrolls and flowers with swans. The bench, which was upholstered over the rail and attached with brass round-head 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 1917
circa 1917
circa 1917
Object/Object