Glass Christmas Ornament
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1930
notes: label: Description
content: Molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Half-sphere, with an indent molded on one side, silver. Indent interior is scalloped like flower petals, painted yellow and pink. Side opposite of indent has molded flower shape: four petals, with lined diamonds in between each petal. Sides have a vertical molded zigzag pattern. Cap and hook are missing, top is broken where cap would have been. No mark. Poland began exporting similar indented ornaments in the mid-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.298065.0244
label: catalog number
content: 298065.0244
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: pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sphere, indented (ornament shape)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 4.7625 cm x 4.445 cm