Garniture
Garniture
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- 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 that fits on a circular wood base with three flattened ball feet. No marks. One of a pair, DL*68.0483-.0484.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- garniture
- date made
- 1850-1900
- place made
- United States: Maryland, Baltimore
- 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 vase material)
- wood (base material)
- Measurements
- overall: 19 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in; 49.53 cm x 19.685 cm
- ID Number
- DL.68.0484
- catalog number
- 68.0484
- accession number
- 274913
- Credit Line
- Bequest of August Mencken
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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