Punch Set

Punch Set

Collection: Historic House

Date: 1909

Classification: Food Service T&E

Medium: sterling silver

Dimensions: Overall (assembled on plateau): 10 × 25 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (25.4 × 64.1 × 64.1 cm)

Credit Line: Reynolda Estate

Credit Line Reproduction: Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Rights & Reproductions Information

Object Number: 1922.4.1a-o

This object is currently on view.

Description

This fifteen piece punch set was presented to Mrs. Reynolds by Mr. Reynolds on the occasion of their fourth wedding anniversary in 1909 as noted by the inscriptions on the bottom of the punch bowl and plateau. The deep footed bowl with everted scalloped rim is repoussé-decorated with a pattern of flowers including roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums, and others. The interior bottom is engraved with "KSR" (the initials of Katharine Smith Reynolds). The handle of the double-spout ladle is repoussé-decorated overall with a pattern of flowers including roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums, and others, except for a reserve on the reverse of the terminal, which is engraved with monogram "KSR". The heavy, footed plateau with everted scalloped rim on which the rest of the punch set sits is repoussé-decorated on the rim with a pattern of flowers including roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums, and others. The center is engraved with monogram "KSR". The monogram is surrounded by an elaborate pattern of engraved feathered scrolls. The neoclassical punch cups have a bulbous body with everted rim prominent foot and c-scrolled handle. The repoussé decoration of several different flowers around the body echoes the ornament on the rest of the punch set. The term repoussé refers to a type of decoration in metal rendered in deep relief by pressing or hammering on the reverse. This repoussé floral pattern in silver is typically associated with nineteenth-century Baltimore silversmith Samuel Kirk.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

“Dining Room, north side, Reynolda House,” 1917. Photograph. 06-384-02. Reynolda House Museum of American Art Archives, Winston-Salem, NC.

Goldsborough, Jennifer. Silver in Maryland (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983).

Provenance

From 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.

Marks, Inscription, Period, Culture

Marks:

Hallmark (punched on reverse of all items except ladle):
S. KIRK & SON CO.
925/1000
1484

Inscription:

(Inscription engraved in script on reverse of bowl and tray):
1905-1909
February the Twenty Seventh
Richard Joshua Reynolds
To
Katharine Smith Reynolds

(monogram engraved on bowl, tray, and ladle): KSR

Period:

20th Century

Culture:

American

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Winston-Salem, NC 27106

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Reynolda House is supported by the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. It is affiliated with Wake Forest University and is AAM accredited.

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