Glass Christmas Garland
Glass Christmas Garland
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- Description
- Holiday or Christmas decoration, garland of molded glass ellipsoidal shapes, lobed, silvered glass painted green, yellow, gold, and red. Each piece has opening at each side, nineteen pieces, held together with white cotton string. No mark.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- garland
- date made
- before 1903
- place made
- Germany
- place used
- United States: Tennessee, Knoxville
- Physical Description
- red (ornament color)
- white (ornament color)
- yellow (ornament color)
- tied (overall connector/connecting technique)
- glass (ornament material)
- ellipsoid (ornament shape)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/8 in x 52 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 132.715 cm x 2.8575 cm
- ID Number
- 1981.0993.13
- accession number
- 1981.0993
- catalog number
- 1981.0993.13
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eloise R. Morris
- subject
- Christmas
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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