Collection Highlights
Wedding dress
Date:
ca. 1712 with several alterations into the 20th century
Object Number:
1949.115a
Medium:
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
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Luce Center
Pipe bowl: St. Nicholas Soc. of NY, head fig. w/tricrnr hat
Object Number:
INV.7887
Date:
ca. 1880-1920
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 23 3/8 x 3 in. ( 5.1 x 59.4 x 7.6 cm )
Marks:
molded: on side of shaft: "SAINT NICHOLAS SOCIETY/NEW YORK"
stamped: on shaft: "L. Fiolet/St. Omar/France"
Description:
Earthenware pipe with yellow glaze made for the Saint Nicholas Society in New York; bowl is molded into shape of a man's head in tricorn hat and eighteenth
century costume; tapering shaft terminates in white mouthpiece.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
