Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Spinning top
Object Number:
1932.150a-t
Date:
ca.1875
Medium:
Wood, brass, steel, paper, ceramic, string
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. ( 14 x 10.5 cm )
Marks:
hand written: in faded red ink: "1868"
hand written: on label: "391/79/C [with "c" in a circle]"
printed: on heading on printed instructions in French, English, and Spanish: "TOUPIE CAMELEON FIGURATIVE EXPLICATION DESFIGURES"
hand written: in ink on bo
Description:
Spinning top made of brass with eleven bent wire extensions that, when attached to spinning top, produce a variety of virtual images (goblet, vase, human profile, etc.); several colored paper disks are also included along with printed instructions and a circular white ceramic base for supporting spinning top.
Gallery Label:
According to accession records, this spinning top was used by Dr. Sydney H. Carney, Jr. as a boy in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Sydney H. Carney, Jr.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
