Collection Highlights
Cayambe
1858
S-91
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Dishes (5)
Object name
Dishes (5)
Date
1820-1845
Medium
Glass
Description
Set of four colorless blown and cut lead glass dishes and one footed dish; square form with rounded corners heavily cut on exterior with elongated fans on the center of the four sides in between fields of strawberry diamonds; circular foot ring cut on underside with strawberry diamonds in diamond-shaped frame.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. W. Floyd Nichols and Mrs. B. Langdon Tyler
Object Number
1952.360a-e
Gallery Label
According to the accession records, these dishes are part of a service of glassware given to Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) by Czar Nicholas I.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
