Wax Bouquet
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: White-painted oval wire or woven fiber basket filled with polychrome wax flowers attached to wire stems, the entire display covered by an oval, clear colorless glass dome or shade on an oval, gilded wood base with four ball feet. Flowers inside the basket include budding and blooming roses, carnation, dahlia, daisy, fuschia, peonies, Stargazer lily and more; lilies-of-the-valley and what appear to be snowdrops are wrapped around the arched basket handle with painted fabric ivy leaves. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of August Mencken
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.68.0482
label: catalog number
content: 68.0482
label: accession number
content: 274913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bouquet, wax
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wax (flowers, leaves material)
label: Physical Description
content: pigment (flowers, leaves material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (ivy leaves material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (ivy leaves material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire (stems material)
label: Physical Description
content: woven wire or fiber (basket material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (shade material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (base covering material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilding on base material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (base material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-box with moss: 2 5/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 10.4775 cm x 15.5575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-garniture: 16 in x 13 3/8 in x 11 in; 40.64 cm x 33.9725 cm x 27.94 cm