Glass Christmas Ornament
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1950
notes: label: Description
content: Molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Half-sphere, with smooth concave interior. Exterior of ornament is ribbed, mirrored silver, interior is painted blue with white mountainous shapes painted white with glitter. Remnants of glue on interior indicate that a piece is missing that would complete the interior scene (similar to DL*298065.0411 and DL*298065.0412). No cap or hook. A large piece of the right side is broken off and missing. No mark. Possibly Italian-made because of similarity to marked ornaments. In 1937, a tariff decision (no. 54387) reversed earlier decisions regarding the marking of ornaments with their country of origin, established in the 1890 MicKinley Tariff Act and the Smoot-Havley Tariff Act of 1930. The ornament itself now had to be marked with with its country of origin by stamping it into the cap or by way of tag or sticker.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place made
content: Italy
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.298065.0413
label: catalog number
content: 298065.0413
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: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sphere (ornament, indented shape)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 in; 3.81 cm x 6.6675 cm x 5.08 cm