Console Table

Datecirca 1917

Mediumwalnut, unidentified secondary wood, painted and gilded

DimensionsOverall: 35 5/8 x 53 x 26 1/4 in. (90.5 x 134.6 x 66.7 cm)

Credit LineReynolda Estate

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number1922.2.94

DescriptionThis console table, one of a pair, was designed and executed in the style of Louis XVI. The top is painted in the center with a shaped oval black reserve containing a variety of polychrome flowers with green leaves, perhaps in imitation of Italian mosaic inlay. The edges of the table top are vertically scalloped. The apron and legs of the table are carved and painted to resemble gilded bronze, the apron having a boldly carved and gilded guilloche frieze with shells at the corners, while the tapered and stop-fluted legs, also painted and gilded, terminate at the tops and bottoms with anthemions. Carved and gilded swags of laurel leaves are attached to the bottom of the apron.
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