Century Vase
date: label: date made
content: c. 1876
name: label: maker
content: Union Porcelain Works
notes: label: Description
content: This ornate, baluster-shaped vase is known as the Century (or Centennial) vase. Commemorating the first 100 years of U.S. history, it features a relief portrait of George Washington, molded North American bison heads employed as handles, and historical scenes and images, including Penn's treaty with the Indians, the Boston Tea Party, and a log cabin with an early settler. A similar vase was manufactured for exhibition at the U.S. Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. Congress mandated the exhibition to commemorate "the natural resources of the country and their development, and [the country's] progress in those arts which benefit mankind, in comparison with those of older nations."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn, Greenpoint
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.74.17
label: accession number
content: 312735
label: catalog number
content: 74.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic; porcelain (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 3/4 in x 19 1/4 in; 55.245 cm x 48.895 cm