Collection Highlights
Dressing table
Date:
1795-1810
Object Number:
INV.14982
Medium:
Probably New York mahogany, white pine, yellow poplar, other inlays
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Figurine
Object Number:
1945.245b
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); (b) represents woman in blue dress holding music down and head up; hollow.
Credit Line:
Gift of Leonidas Westervelt
Provenance:
The Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
