Vase and Stand
date: label: Date made
content: 1869-1898
label: date made
content: 1867-1898
notes: label: Description
content: Four-lobed, tapering oval, opaque pale blue glass vase with gilt crenellated rim and white enamel decoration that fits into a figural stand of a female deity or allegory holding a spiraling wire between her hands as she walks forward on foliated ground complete with tree stump; circular, ogee base. Vase exterior is painted with a boy in Colonial-style dress bowing to left with riding crop tucked under his arm on one side and a cluster of flowers on the other. Base underside is struck incuse "QUADRUPLE PLATE" over a circular mark for "WILCOX SILVER PLATE Co" with crossed raising hammers at center and the number "2935". Vase unmarked.
label: Description
content: Glassmaker and decorator not known; painting is in the style of Mary Alice Gregory. Stand made by Wilcox Silver Plate Co. of Meriden, CT. The firm was founded as Wilcox Britannia Co. in 1865, and changed its name to Wilcox Silver Plate Co. in 1867. It was one of the founding members of International Silver Co. in 1898; Insilco continued to use the Wilcox name and trademark until circa 1961 when the line was consolidated with E. G. Webster & Son (purchased by Insilco in 1928) into Webster-Wilcox.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Lois H. Garvin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0145.02
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0145.02
label: accession number
content: 1994.0145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (vase material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (vase decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (vase decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (holder material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (holder production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 5 in; 31.75 cm x 12.7 cm