Garniture
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: Gold- and polychrome-painted white porcelain vase holding a tall bouquet of silk fabric flowers, including roses, chrysanthemums, and bachelor's buttons or cornflowers, accented with silk leaves and fruits (probably colored-wax covered glass baubles). Covered by a clear colorless glass dome or shade that fits on a circular wood base with three flattened ball feet. No marks. One of a pair, DL*68.0483-.0484.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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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 August Mencken
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.68.0484
label: catalog number
content: 68.0484
label: accession number
content: 274913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: garniture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk fabric (flowers, leaves material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (fruits, shade material)
label: Physical Description
content: wax (fruits material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (flowers, leaves, fruits material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire (stems material)
label: Physical Description
content: porcelain (vase material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilding on vase material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (base material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in; 49.53 cm x 19.685 cm