End Table

Retailer W. & J. Sloane (active 1843 - 1985)

Datecirca 1917

Mediumwalnut, and walnut veneer

DimensionsOverall: 24 3/8 x 19 5/8 x 19 3/8 in. (61.9 x 49.8 x 49.2 cm)

Credit LineReynolda Estate

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number1922.2.89

DescriptionThis small walnut table in the style of William and Mary has a shaped top consisting of large lobes alternating with small points and covered with burl walnut veneer applied in four sections. The skirt is shaped. The four turned trumpet-shaped legs are tied together near the floor with an x-shaped double-curved stretcher. Although the style of the table is Colonial, the small form suitable for use next to a chair is characteristic of 20th-century decorating tastes. Correspondence between the Mr. & Mrs. Reynolds and W. & J. Sloane, a New York decorator and retailer, in 1917 indicates that the table may be among many items supplied to the house from Sloane's workshops or from the several furniture makers that they engaged to fulfill decorating contracts.[1]

Notes:
[1] See correspondence between Mrs. Reynolds and W. & J. Sloane dated 7 June 1916, which describes design #4547, "one small round table in walnut with stretcher rails." Reynolda House Archives PC 194 2/169.
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