Glass Christmas Ornament
date: label: date made
content: 1870-1940
notes: label: Description
content: Free blown glass holiday or Christmas ornament, in a cauldron shape: acorn-shaped body with lip at top around large opening. Free-blown spikes around outside of body. Clear glass painted in thick red, white, and blue stripes, wrapped in crinkle tinsel wire, with thin plied wire knotted at top and tied with black thread for hanging. Stuffed with pink tissue paper. No mark. These were generally produced in Germany prior to 1940.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: subject association
content: Christmas
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Nancy M. and Robert R. Garvey, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0157.09
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0157.09
label: accession number
content: 1993.0157
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ornament, christmas tree
label: Other Terms
content: Ornament; Decoration
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 9.525 cm x 6.0325 cm