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This ivory chess piece is a white king, decorated as a stylized, human-king form standing on a pedestal. It is monochrome and intricately carved, with the king standing on a platform that rests on top of floral sphere, with a thin platform underneath the globe, to hold it upright. From the top, the king wears a pointed head covering on his head, whose sides have an upright flare. The facial features are minimal and abstract, but does include oblong eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth. The king wears a floor-length robe with a beaded necklace and intricate floral design similiar to paisley. His right hand is also oblong and minimal and holds a long object. The pedestal he rests on are two thin circular platforms made of delicate, repeated lines and concave features that sandwiches a decorative sphere. The sphere is carved with an interlocking design made of elements of foliage and circles.

White King Chess Set
ivory.
Gift of C. McKim Norton.
1949-150-1/28

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 28 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

A multi-component brass tea set comprised of five vessels; a tea caddy, a sugar bowl, a tea kettle with a stand, a jug, and a spoon vase, arranged from left to right, and standing on a tray. The brass of each object has a gold color and is shiny and reflective. The tea caddy has a cylindrical body and a flat base with a slightly domed lid. Two sets of engraved lines are found where the lid attaches to the body, along with a vertical hinge secured with two small rivets. In front of the tea caddy is a lidded sugar bowl, with a squat, ovoid body and a flat top, with short, rounded square handles on each side. The lid has a rounded knob and subtle engraved lines along the rim. Behind and to the right of the sugar bowl is a tea kettle, which also has a squat, ovoid-shaped body, with a short spout facing right. It has a curved, fiber wrapped, tapered handle attached to each edge, and a small circular lid with a dark, glazed, wooden, spherical finial on top. The tea kettle is placed on a three-legged stand with lipped feet, whose upper frame supports the kettle, with a recessed section underneath, and whose lower frame holds a squat, rounded, fluted glass container with a brass cover. In front of the tea kettle and to the right is a jug, with a squat, ovoid body, a pointed spout facing left, and a small, rounded handle. The jug has a shallow open top revealing a matte, silver-grey tin interior. Behind the jug and to the right is a spoon vase, with a cylindrical body, which flares slightly at the rim and tapers slightly at the base. The vessels rest on a vertical, rectangular tea tray, with a flat bottom and short edges attached at a right-angle to it, along with curved, tapered handles which are centered and attached to the right and left edges.

Tea Set (Netherlands)
brass, copper, glass.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
1986-14-1/6

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

A silver spoon of a place setting in an original complex design imbued with organic and realistic representations. The bowl of the spoon is unevenly formed and narrows to a tip resembling a leaf with a single raised vein veering to the right from the neck. A curled layer of thin silver evoking a shrivelled form occupies the lower right edge of the bowl while the short stem of a leaf bypasses the neck of the spoon, veering to the right, with another small dried-looking leaf-form appearing at its end. A leaf stem travels behind the spoon’s neck appearing intentionally unfinished with uneven edges. The spoon handle continues from the neck into an elongated narrow concave tear-drop form occupying half the handle space attached to a short cylindrical handle with a curved single raised vein ending with an uneven, negative space on the right intentionally evoking the appearance of a dead leaf with a debossed dotted texture on the left. The photograph captures the spoon in a vertical orientation resting on a light gray ground with a slightly visible shadow to the spoon’s left.

Place Setting (France)
cast and chased silver.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund in honor of....
1990-137-1/9

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 10 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

This chrome coffee maker is globular with beige accents for its functional elements. The body of the sphere has a lid at the top with a clear plastic handle in the shape of a thimble and sits on a chrome, scalloped platform. The concave, scalloped platform sits on a plastic base, accented in a beige color. The beige color is repeated with two curved handles on the sides of the globe and handle for the nozzle dispenser. The handles flare out in long plastic rectangles curved in the middle for easy hand grip. The dispenser itself is rectangular and juts out from between the bottom of the sphere and the platform and curves outwardly, with straight decorative lines at the top.

Coronet Coffee Set, 1938–1942
chrome-plated metal, plastic.
Gift of Mel Byars.
1991-59-87/90

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

These four metal objects are smoking accessories in a matching set that consist of two identical, circular ashtrays and cylindrical cigarette holder fitted into an concave oval tray. Its metal chrome color is accented with decorative red enamel around the sides of each object. The cigarette holder sits in between the ashtrays and is the tallest object, with a domed top and thin cylindcrical handle. It is mostly red in color on its exterior, with the lid being a silver metal finish, consistent coloring matching to the rest of the set. The ashtrays flank the cigarette holder and are stout, circular containers with hole openings. There is a slight curve upward toward the opening, minus two divits to hold cigarettes in a resting position. The tray, oval and elongated, hold the three vessels with a concave dish surrounded by elevated edge, with a matching red band around the perimeter.

Smoker's set Smoker's Set
chromium-plated metal,enamel.
Gift of Mel Byars.
1991-59-95/98

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Dessert Spoon with Scorpion Spoon

Dessert Service And Case (France)
silver, steel, gilding, enamel, mother-of-pearl; oak, brass, metal, leather,....
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program,....
1996-56-1/81

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 7 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

This printed wall covering is a long, 32-panel wall covering with four hand painted panels. It depicts scenic narrative on a landscape view with a colorful palette. An illustrated work, it is realistic in terms of style and is comprised of mostly blue sky that fades to yellow. The landscape has forest cliff in the middle of the composition, with a background city and lake horizon line on either side, halfway down from the top of the panel. There are human forms at the bottom in the foreground, much smaller in scale against central the forest cliff. From left to right, similar yet smaller forest cliffs frame along the edge with a modest town next to a mountain-lake scene in the background. In the foreground, soldiers stand in a crowded formation wearing bright colors and holding flags in conversation. The center of the panel has a prominent forest cliff scene, with large boulders surrounded by lush green trees that visually divide the left and right scenes. In the central foreground are the backs of people wearing dresses and colorful suits equipped with luggage, who wave to soldiers on horseback in the right side of the panel. In the background behind the soldiers is a harbor full of ships and blue water surrounded by distant buildings. On the sandy beach in the foreground, colorfully-outfitted soldiers mid-trot wave back to the luggage-towing group. As on the left side, a small forest cliff frames the right edge of the panel.

Scenic, Views of the American War of Independence
block printed on paper.
Gift of Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.
2007-11-1/65

This object was made by Zuber & Cie.
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Four adonized aluminum utensils laying on a flat surface. Starting on the left, a fork with purple tines and light blue shaft, dark blue bladed knife with a forest green handle. A gold headed spoon with a purple handle and lastly a smaller spoon with a dark blue scoop and gray handle. Each utensil has silver connectors.

Signature Collection, "Picnic Flatware" Picnic Set, 1985
anodized aluminum.
Museum purchase from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1986-94-1/3,10

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

This object has not been digitized yet.

iPod Nano Digital Media Player, 2009
aluminum, glass, polycarbonate.
Gift of Apple.
2010-34-1/6

This object was made by Apple Inc..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Ten square shaped translucent pillared glass vases in various sizes and colors. At the front are six glass vases. On the far left is a dark rose vase of medium height but wide opening, besides it are two similar slendar pillars, one clear glass the other dark gray. To their right are three small vases, one clear and the other two amber. Behind these vases are four larger vases in cascading height from left to right. The two on the left are large sized glass vases, one clear glass and on its right dark amber, a shorter dark green and lastly a dark rose quartz vase.

Ruutu Group Of Vases, 2015
mold-blown, ground and polished glass.
Gift of littala.
2018-9-1/10

This object was made by Ahlstrom-Iittala, Inc..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

This object has not been digitized yet.

Textiles, Clerkenwell and Myddleton, 2014
100% wool.
Gift of Designtex Group.
2016-14-7,8

This object was made by Designtex.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

This object has not been digitized yet.

Samples, Decor I Series: Circle, Curve, Square, and Stripe, 1969
cotton.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt....
2017-9-1/4

This object was made by Mira-X International Furnishings, Inc..
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Encyclopédie Artistique Et Documentaire De La Plante, Book

Encyclopédie Artistique Et Documentaire De La Plante, Book
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Robert Winthrop Chanler, Smithsonian Libraries, NK1560 .V47 1904.
139.2018.1/4

There are 8 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

La Plante Et Ses Applications Ornamentales, Book

La Plante Et Ses Applications Ornamentales, Book
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Robert Winthrop Chanler, Smithsonian Libraries, NK1560 .G76 1896.
139.2018.3

There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Studies In Design, Book

Studies In Design, Book
lithograph on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, NK1535 .D77 1876.
139.2018.7

There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

The Use Of The Plant In Decorative Design, Book

The Use Of The Plant In Decorative Design, Book
lithograph on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, NK1560 .L3X 1912.
139.2018.8

There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Paxton's Magazine Of Botany, And Register Of Flowering Plants, Vol. 1

Paxton's Magazine Of Botany, And Register Of Flowering Plants, Vol. 1
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, The Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
139.2018.17

This object was made by Sir Joseph Paxton.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

An illustrated title page for 'Les Fleurs Animées', written in fanciful flower and leaf forms. 'Les Fleurs' grows out in pale multicolor flower-forms from a slender, arched stem, filling the upper third of the page. 'Animées' is written with a ribbonlike, yellow-orange and pink vine held up by a woman standing below the floral lettering. She wears a pale green leaf dress with white and pale pink flower ornaments. One leg is extended behind her; her other tiptoe foot stands on a broad, pale green leaf inscribed with the names of the contributors to the book, written in an assortment of fanciful lettering: 'Dessins par J.I. Grandville Graves sur acier par C. Geoffroi Introductions par Alph. Karr. Texte par Taxile Delord. Botanique et horticulture des dames par le Cte. Fœlix'. A pale blue riddon tied to the base of the stem at left gives more information: 'G. de Gonet Edit. Rue des Beaux Arts'. Two brown beetles, one wearing a pink flower as a cap, climb up the stem of the flower. A multicolor butterfly and insect hover over the flower letters. The delicate lines are hatched and crosshatched to create shading; a dense crosshatched area behind this scene creates depth.

Les Fleurs Animees, Vol. 1, 1847
H x W (book open): 27 × 36 cm (10 5/8 × 14 3/16 in.).
Smithsonian Libraries, NC248 .G7F6 1847.
139.2018.12

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This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Illustrated title page for 'Les Fleurs Animées', on slightly yellowed paper. The title is spelled out in a variety of fanciful flower and leaf forms growing up from a plant with a central stem, two side branches, and four broad leaves. The colors are a mix of bright reds and pinks, sunshine yellow, pale green, light blue, and pale purple. The words are divided among the three branches: 'Les' at the top of the central stem, 'Fleurs' along the left branch, 'Animées' along the right. Below the 'Les' on the central stem are four small human figures clothed in flowers, connected to the stem by leaf caps. They seem to grow from the plant and wave cheerfully. 'Seconde Partie G. de Gonet Editeur' is written in capitalized letters on two pale green leaves. Two large insects, a yellow dragonfly and a red and yellow beetle, cling to the cut stem of the plant. The fine lines of the illustration are offset by a dense scramble of wavy lines behind the leaves, creating depth.

Les Fleurs Animees, Vol 2
lithograph on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, NC248 .G7F6 1847.
139.2018.13

There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

A Floral Fantasy In An Old English Garden: Set Forth In Verses & Coloured Design, Book

A Floral Fantasy In An Old English Garden: Set Forth In Verses & Coloured...
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean, Smithsonian Libraries, NX650 .F57 C89....
139.2018.14

There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

The cover of a dark blue fabric-bound book, slightly dirtied and worn around the edges. At the top, in medieval-style impressed gold lettering, is 'The Bases Of Design / By Walter Crane'. Below, also impressed in gold, is a stylized illustration of a winged woman standing in front of a tree. She is nude, arms raised overhead, birdlike wings spread against the leafy branches of the tree. The shape of the tree's foliage and trunk is like a goblet. The roots of the tree descend in a triangle shape, with words tucked in the spaces between. The words are in small capitalized handwritten-like letters, and separated into two or three chunks divided by dots: 'sym/bolic', 'graph/ic', 'indi/vi/dual', 'col/lect/ive', 'condi/tions', 'cli/matic', 'rac/ial', 'utili/ty', 'mat/erial', 'archi/tect/ural'.

The Bases Of Design, 1909
lithograph on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, NK1510 .C89.
139.2018.15

This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Vase (USA)
favrile glass.
Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
1956-66-1

This object was made by Tiffany and Co. and Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Round white porcelain plate with wavy brown-edged rim, painted with plants and insects. A large branch with wide pointed yellow-green leaves decorates most of the plate, curving up and over from the left side and ending in a cascade of small purple-pink flowers at three o'clock. Surrounding the branch, smaller insects and flowers. Just above the bottom leaf, a small oval-shaped blue beetle; at five o'clock, a spotted yellow and purple butterfly; at seven o'clock, small trumpet-shaped pale blue morning glories.

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-3

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Round white porcelain plate with wavy brown-edged rim, painted with a large pancratium flower and insects. Filling the plate, broad pointed leaves in green and yellow-green. Filling the top half of the plate, a cluster of large purple flowers with long pointed petals and curling yellow stamens atop a blue stem. Surrounding the flower, smaller insects in various colors. At twelve o'clock, a blue and green winged insect; at eight o'clock, a pale purple and yellow butterfly; at ten o'clock, a purple and yellow winged insect.

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-4

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Round white porcelain plate with wavy brown-edged rim, painted with bindweed plant and insects. At center right and left, two trumpet-shaped flowers in purple and brown. The petals open out into purple ovals surrounding an eight-pointed brown star shape in each. The lower part of the flower is visible as a brown U-shape below the purple oval. Surrounding the flowers, large heart-shaped green leaves on a vine. On the rim of the plate, various insects. At twelve o'clock, a purple and yellow insect; at one o'clock, a round blue beetle; at three o'clock, a blue winged insect; at five o'clock, a multicolor butterfly in yellow, orange, blue, and purple; at nine o'clock, a blue winged insect.

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-5

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-7

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-8

This object was made by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-9

This object was made by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Round white porcelain plate with wavy brown-edged rim, painted with large plant and smaller insects. A central flower with long blade-shaped leaves and six small pink flowers drooping from the stem. Surrounding the flower, various insects. At one o'clock, a multicolored butterfly in red, yellow, teal, and purple; at four o'clock, a small oval-shaped blue beetle; at eight o'clock, a pink and red winged insect; at nine o'clock, a blue caterpillar crawling on a leaf of the plant; at ten o'clock, a small round pink beetle; at twelve o'clock, a blue and red fly.

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-10

This object was made by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

An image of a magnolia flower cuves from the bottom a white plant to the top, its flower opening in the middle. Leaves of varying shades of green curl off of the stem, some growing upward toward the top of the plate, some growing downward toward the bottom. Above the flower, at the top center, a butterfly faces downward toward the center of the plate. To the right of the flower on the right side of the plate's rim, another butterfly turns inward to the left, also toward the center of the plate.

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-12

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 8 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Round white porcelain plate with wavy brown-edged rim, painted with plants and insects. The edge of the plate is chipped at one o'clock. At center, a large, pale yellow flower on a curved purple stem, with large yellow-green leaves. Clusters of round purple buds branch off from the main stem. Surrounding the flower, smaller insects and flowers. At three o'clock, a cream and orange butterfly with two blue spots; at four o'clock, a small oval-shaped orange beetle; at six o'clock, a small trumpet-shaped pale blue morning glory; at ten o'clock, a purple and black winged insect.

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-13

This object was made by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

This vase is a shiny golden yellow with iridescent qualities. With its iridescent stem and circular foot, the vase is globular, squat vessel with an opening that tapers inward. Iridescent drips of glass on the outside make an abstract floral and stem decoration, almost resembling fans, with the stems stretching all the way to the stem.

Vase
mold-blown favrile glass.
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris.
1966-55-9-a

This object was made by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

This vase is a shiny golden yellow with iridescent qualities. With its iridescent stem and circular foot, the vase is globular, squat vessel with an opening that tapers inward. Iridescent drips of glass on the outside make an abstract floral and stem decoration, almost resembling fans, with the stems stretching all the way to the stem.

Vase
glass.
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris.
1966-55-9-b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 5 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

Vase (USA)
favrile glass.
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris.
1966-55-37

This object was made by Tiffany and Co..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022

A pair of favrile glass candlesticks with long, translucent, turquoise stems, which have spherical tops on top of globular columns that taper into flat disk shaped bases. The holders are pink, pearlised, bowl shapes with deep pink rims, and magenta srtiped, flaired cylindrical pieces growing from the center, giving the illusion of flowers.

Pair Of Candlesticks (USA)
favrile glass.
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris.
1966-55-38-a,b

This object was made by Tiffany and Co..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.
This object visited Long gallery, East in February 2022