Wax Bouquet
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: Two-tiered, white-painted, woven wire basket filled with polychrome wax flowers and leaves attached to wire stems, the entire display covered by a clear colorless glass dome or shade on a circular wood base lined with black velvet on three conical feet. Flowers include budding and blooming roses, dahlia, hyacinth, lilies-of-the-valley, tulip, wisteria and more. No marks. Broken pieces stored separately.
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.68.0481
label: catalog number
content: 68.0481
label: accession number
content: 274913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bouquet, wax
label: Object Name
content: garniture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wax (flowers, leaves material)
label: Physical Description
content: pigment (flowers, leaves material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire (flowers, leaves, basket material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (shade material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (base material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-petal box: 2 in x 3 1/2 in x 6 in; 5.08 cm x 8.89 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 3/4 in x 17 1/4 in; 65.405 cm x 43.815 cm