Collection Highlights
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1916-1922
1954.164
Painted plaster
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Figurine
Object name
Figurine
Date
1850-1860
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
each: 4 3/8 x 2 x 1 3/4 in.
Description
One of a pair of porcelain figurines in the form of a woman with the head of a nightingale (meant to represent Jenny Lind); represents woman in pink dress holding music in front of her, with nightingale head looking down; hollow.
Credit Line
Gift of Leonidas Westervelt
Object Number
1945.245a
Provenance
The Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
