Glass Christmas Ornament
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1930
notes: label: Description
content: Molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Onion-shaped, with pointed top and bottom and three concave indents. Silver ground painted red body, with white stripes on top and bottom, silver indent interiors, with remnants of green dots at center. No cap or hook. 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.298065.0268
label: catalog number
content: 298065.0268
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: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sphere, indented (ornament shape)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 6.6675 cm x 5.715 cm