Napkin Ring with Bud Vase
date: label: date made
content: 1877 - 1898
name: label: parent company
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical napkin ring mounted to a flat oval base inside two scrolled brackets or supports connected to a conical holder with gilt-edged, opaque black glass bud vase painted with a child dancing with ribbons in white enamel; a die-rolled floral pattern with four circular reserves encircles the ring. Base underside struck with incuse circular mark for "ROGERS SMITH & CO / WEST / MERIDEN / CONN." above "219".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
topic: label: Subject
content: Flowers
label: Subject
content: Eating
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Lois H. Garvin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0145.05
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0145.05
label: accession number
content: 1994.0145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase, bud
label: Object Name
content: ring, napkin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (vase material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (vase decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (vase decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (holder material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (holder production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in x 2 in; 16.51 cm x 9.2075 cm x 5.08 cm