Garniture

Description:

Gold- and polychrome-painted white porcelain vase holding a tall bouquet of silk fabric flowers, including roses, chrysanthemums, and bachelor's buttons or cornflowers, accented with silk leaves and fruits (probably colored-wax covered glass baubles). Covered by a clear colorless glass dome or shade with a gilt band along its bottom edge that fits on a circular wood base with three flattened ball feet. No marks. One of a pair, DL*68.0483-.0484.

Date Made: 1850-1900

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Maryland, Baltimore

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Credit Line: Bequest of August Mencken

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: DL.68.0483Catalog Number: 68.0483Accession Number: 274913

Object Name: garniture

Physical Description: silk fabric (flowers, leaves material)glass (fruits, shade material)wax (fruits material)paint (flowers, leaves, fruits material)wire (stems material)porcelain (vase material)gold (gilding on shade and vase material)wood (base material)Measurements: overall: 18 3/8 in x 8 1/8 in; 46.6725 cm x 20.6375 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-2340-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1456814

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