Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Lid |
Catalog Number |
0985.07.00158 |
Description |
The lid (believed for a sugar bowl) is porcelain with a golden blossom handle set into a raised and gilded glazed leaf pattern. The circular base has concentric bands of gold, blue, orange, and filigree line gold decoration. It has a semicircular notch near the rim, indicating that it was a lid to a sugar bowl. |
Material |
Ceramic/Porcelain |
Dimensions |
H-3 Dia-5 inches |
Owned |
Varina Banks Howell Davis ; Jefferson Davis |
Made |
Haviland and Company Limoges, Sevres, France |
Event |
capture and occupation of Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1870 |
Provenance |
"The only piece of a set of Sevres which took the prize at Vienna, and which was sent to me by a Northern man who had taken it from the Executive Mansion in Richmond as a souvenir." --Varina Howell in original label. |
People |
Davis, Varina Banks Howell [Mrs. Jefferson] Howell, Varina Banks Davis, Jefferson |
Search Terms |
Confederate Executive Mansion Confederate White House Executive Mansion capture and occupation of Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1870 items captured by Union soldiers items taken by Union soldiers Items taken North by Union soldiers and later returned South White House of the Confederacy |