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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
Mantel Clock
Maker
Edward F. Caldwell & Company
(1895 - 1959)
Datecirca 1918
Mediumgilt bronze and Alps green marble
DimensionsOverall: 13 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (34.3 × 52.1 × 14 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.5.3
DescriptionAn Alps green marble (serpentine) clock face shaped as a disk and having Roman numerals and decorative minute and hour hands is presented by two gilt-bronze satyrs (in Roman style, rather than original Greek), the whole mounted on a rectangular green marble plinth raised on a molded gilt-bronze molded frame with lambrequin curls at the corners.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 view1900-1910
1910-1920
circa 1917