banner, award
date: label: Date made
content: 1893
label: associated dates
content: 1893 / 1893
label: associated dates
content: 1893 / 1893
name: label: designer
content: Conkey, W.B. Company
label: maker
content: Designer
notes: label: Description
content: China painting, the decoration of plain porcelain blanks, was a popular and sometimes lucrative pastime for many American women in the late 19th century and into the 20th century. While some women painted china for enjoyment and artistic fulfillment, others earned a living selling their decorated wares and teaching the art of china painting.
label: Description
content: This silk award banner was given to sisters Mary and Emily Healey at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in recognition of their Decorated Porcelain. The Healey sisters were two of thousands of American women china painters; they stand out because they, unlike many female china-painters, won public recognition and financial reward for their work.
label: Description
content: According to family history, the Healey sisters moved to Washington, DC looking for employment sometime after the Civil War. Emily was interested in chemistry and developed a formula for a gold-colored application that would adhere to glazed porcelain blanks. Family descendants believe that Emily worked in the lab while Mary ran the business end of their growing china painting concern. The Healey won numerous awards and much recognition for their gold-covered "Chryso-Ceramics."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: China Painting
label: Subject
content: Worlds Fair
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Captain Guy E. Hearn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0524.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0524.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0524
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banner, award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brocade (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metallic fringe (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 4 1/4 in x 18 3/8 in; x 10.795 cm x 46.6598 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 18 9/16 in; .635 cm x 10.795 cm x 47.14875 cm