Covered Dish (Spanish-American War)
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CULTURE
American
MEDIUM
Glass
DATES
1898
DIMENSIONS
4 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 15.6 x 8.6 cm) (show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS
On lid, molded letters on three eggs in front of eagle: "PORTO / RICA", "CUBA", and "PHILIPPINES"
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
40.259a-b
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mrs. William Greig Walker by subscription
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Oval milk glass dish (a) with fitted lid surmounted by eagle (b). Dish tapers slightly toward bottom and has fluted sides all around. Lid rises to low oval dome covered with molded straw to evoke a nest; rising from nest is upper part of an eagle looking toward proper left, its wings are spread in protective gesture to surround three eggs inscribed in molded letters with "PORTO / RICA", "CUBA", and "PHILIPPINES".
CONDITION: Good; tiny chips around top edge of dish and lid; hairline crack on lower edge of eagle's proper left wing.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CAPTION
American. Covered Dish (Spanish-American War), 1898. Glass, 4 1/4 x 6 1/8 x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 15.6 x 8.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. William Greig Walker by subscription, 40.259a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 40.259a-b.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 40.259a-b.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
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