Collection Highlights
Medicine Man (Blackfoot): Plate 173
Date:
1866-68
Object Number:
1872.23.173
Medium:
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
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Luce Center
Waste bowl
Object Number:
1957.222b
Date:
ca. 1845
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. ( 14.3 x 16.5 cm )
Marks:
engraved: center front: "J E B"
stamped: on base: "EOFF & PHYFE" twice in rectangles
Description:
Wrought silver waste bowl; round body with wide gadrooning around the lower body on an applied round stepped foot with egg and dart applied footring and an egg and dart pedestal; concave shoulder with an applied vertical egg and dart rim; engraved, "J E B" in script on the center front; makers' marks on base.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Sheldon Leavitt
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
