VASE, FLOWER
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT
- Date Range From
- 1900
- Date Range To
- 1910
- Materials
- GLASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19990015001
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT
- Date Range From
- 1900
- Date Range To
- 1910
- Materials
- GLASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 17.1
- Length
- 11.1
- Width
- 9.1
- Description
- FOGGED GLASS VASE. CIRCULAR BASE, TAPERED TOWARD NARROW NECK. MOUTH OF VASE CONSISTS OF VIOLET COLORED LIP, APPROXIMATELY 4CM WIDE, DRAPING DOWN IN FRONT AND RAISED INTO POINT AT BACK (RESEMBLES FLOWER PETAL). BODY OF VASE IS TEXTURED WITH DIAMOND PATTERN WHICH STRAIGHTENS INTO FLUTING AT NECK AND TEAR SHAPED PATTERNS AT MOUTH.
- Subjects
- HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- DONOR INHERITED VASES IN 1963 FROM HER GRANDMOTHER FANNIE (KING) MARQUARDSON'S ESTATE. FANNIE (1887-1963) HOMESTEADED NEAR TYRREL'S LAKE, ARRIVING FROM UTAH IN 1903. THE FAMILY MOVED TO STIRLING IN 1916 AND REMAINED THERE; FANNIE CAME TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1947 UNTIL HER DEATH. VASE WAS USED TO HOLD FLOWERS; MATCHING PIECE (PAIR) BROKE SEVERAL YEARS AGO. VICTORIAN 'JACK-IN-THE-PULPITS' WERE NAMED FOR THEIR TRUMPET-LIKE SHAPE, WHICH RESEMBLES A WILD PLANT CALLED THE JACK IN THE PULPIT.
- Catalogue Number
- P19990015001
- Acquisition Date
- 1999-07
- Collection
- Museum
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