Glass Christmas Ornament
Glass Christmas Ornament
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- Description
- Free blown glass holiday or Christmas ornament, in a cauldron shape: acorn-shaped body with lip at top around large opening. Free-blown spikes around outside of body. Clear glass painted matte white, wrapped in crinkle tinsel wire, with small coil wire wrapped at top for hanging. Spikes are painted red. No mark. These were generally produced in Germany prior to 1940.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- ornament, christmas tree
- Other Terms
- Ornament; Decoration
- date made
- 1870-1940
- place made
- Germany
- place used
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 in; 6.0325 cm x 6.35 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- 1993.0157.11
- catalog number
- 1993.0157.11
- accession number
- 1993.0157
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nancy M. and Robert R. Garvey, Jr.
- subject
- Christmas
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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