Glass Christmas Ornament
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1940
notes: label: Description
content: Free-blown and molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Finial-shaped, with ball on top and longer, pointed bottom, floral-shaped indents on front and back of ball. Mirrored silver, painted orange-gold, with red stripe down longer bottom. Indents painted red. No cap attached, thin metal wire wrapped around opening at top, with thick wire hook attached. Hook is corroded. No mark. Poland began exporting similar indented ornaments in the 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place made
content: Poland
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Christmas
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Jones
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.298065.0260
label: catalog number
content: 298065.0260
label: accession number
content: 298065
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ornament, christmas tree
label: Other Terms
content: Ornament, Indented; Decorations
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow, whitish (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (hanger material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 5 1/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 13.0175 cm x 4.7625 cm