Collection Highlights
Doll: girl w/fur trimmed coat and velvet hat on stand
ca. 1893
1961.31
Ceramic, composition, textile, leather, fur, hair, rhinestones, feathers, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Goblet
Object name
Goblet
Date
1933
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 6 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. ( 17.1 x 8.3 cm )
Description
Colorless blown lead-glass goblet; cup-shaped bowl joined by wafer to hollow globe containing blue glass lamp-work bird joined by a wafer to pedestal base with pontil mark; engraved on bowl, "SUCCESS TO REPEAL" and "1933."
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Robert Taylor
Object Number
1945.406
Marks
engraved: on bowl; "SUCCESS/ TO/ REPEAL" and "1933"
printed: underside of base; "REPEAL GLASS/ Vernay/ MADE IN ENGLAND"
Gallery Label
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, Prohibition, was repealed by the passage of the 21st Amendment in 1933.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
