Chamberstick
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
label: date purchased
content: ca 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Black-japanned chamberstick with large loop handle and cylindrical candle cup or socket mounted at center of a deep circular bowl with wire-rolled rim and foot ring. Painted decoration inside bowl includes a wide yellow or white band above a thin yellow line that features a repeating pattern of three red cherries on a single stem attached to a seven-lobed green leaf; a yellow band overpainted with an undulating or wavy black line borders the low-domed well. No marks. One of a pair, 1990.0503.01-.02.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland
label: place purchased
content: United States: Maryland, Middletown
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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: Mrs. John H. Murray (Anne W. Murray)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0503.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0503.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0503
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chamberstick
label: Other Terms
content: Chamberstick; Lighting Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 5 5/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 18.0975 cm x 14.2875 cm