Collection Highlights
Physician's saddlebags w/bottles & bundles
1800-1850
1954.11
Leather, metal, glass, paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Vases (4)
Object name
Vases (4)
Date
1850-1900
Medium
Bronze, marble, brass
Dimensions
Overall (larger vase): 10 3/4 x 7 in. (27.3 x 17.8 cm)
Overall (smaller vase): 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (24.1 x 17.1 cm)
Description
Four cast bronze vases on marble pedestals; larger vases with two strap handles and cast mythological imagery including centaurs, smaller vases with ring handles and cast foliate decoration; each urn has removable brass insert and rests on detachable cylindrical marble pedestal base.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number
1932.157a-h
Gallery Label
These vases were purchased in Rome for the donor's mother by Thomas H. Hotchkiss. They are copies of originals in a museum in Naples, Italy.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
