Bud Vase
date: label: date made
content: 1862 - 1877
name: label: parent company
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Four-lobed, tapering oval, opaque black glass vase with gilt crenellated rim and white enamel decoration in a partial-gilt, asymmetrical, Japanesque holder or stand having a central vertical rod topped by two, flat-chased, circular hand-held fans that is braced by a longer angled rod with bird perched near top and a crooked bamboo shoot, all joined to a right-angled triangular block on flared circular base with two bees. Vase exterior is painted with a child dropping flower petals on one side and floral sprigs on the other three. Base underside is struck incuse "ROGERS, SMITH & Co. (arched) / NEW / HAVEN / CONN (curved)" and "328", with a series of faint, illegible numbers and letters incised at left. Vase unmarked.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
topic: label: Subject
content: Flowers
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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: 1994.0145.01
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0145.01
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 (stand material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (stand production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 36.5125 cm x 8.5725 cm