Object Details
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alexander B. C. Mulholland
- date curtain or shade ring made
- 1865 - 1905
- date comb made
- 1860 - 1910
- date shell-edged ware made
- 1775 - 1810
- date blue-transferware made
- 1815 - 1830
- ID Number
- DL.252318.0043
- catalog number
- 252318.0043
- accession number
- 252318
- Object Name
- materials, construction
- Physical Description
- zinc (curtain or shade ring material)
- rubber, hard (comb material)
- earthenware, lead-glazed (pearlware) (shell-edge sherds; transferware sherds material)
- earthenware, lead-glazed (whiteware) (whiteware sherds material)
- porcelain, hard-paste (porcelain sherds material)
- enamel (porcelain sherd decoration material)
- earthenware, lead-glazed (redware) (porcelain sherd decoration material)
- stoneware (stoneware sherds material)
- glass (shards material)
- coal (2 chunks of coal(?) material)
- flint (piece of flint material)
- mortar (mortar material)
- bone (bone fragments material)
- Measurements
- overall, largest: 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 4 5/16 in; .635 cm x 3.81 cm x 10.95375 cm
- overall, smallest: 1/16 in x 9/16 in x 3/8 in; .15875 cm x 1.42875 cm x .9525 cm
- curtain ring: 3/16 in x 1 3/4 in; .47625 cm x 4.445 cm
- comb: 1 3/8 in x 3 in x 1/16 in; 3.4925 cm x 7.62 cm x .15875 cm
- shell-edged sherds put together: 3 in x 3 in; 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm
- place curtain or shade ring made
- United States
- place comb made
- United States
- place shell-edge and transferware sherds made
- United Kingdom: England, Staffordshire
- place hard-paste porcelain made
- China
- place used
- United States: Massachusetts, Ipswich
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Building & Architecture
- Food Culture
- Personal Accessories
- Personal Hygiene
- Record ID
- nmah_1460607
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-0d34-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
