Here we have two sculptures of a green plant and its growing stages sharing one base stand. The front piece has a large seed pod shaped like a giant flower bud. The pod is opening at the top with two thick, bumpy stems emerging and curling outward. Behind it is a horizontal stem with large black spots and patches of wispy hairs attached to a base. From the horizontal stem a bundle of green pods resembling peppers are encased by an rectangular shell of leaves, as if they were protecting the green pods and are, at last, opening.

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Model, Juglans Regia

This is a model. It is dated 1875–1898. Its medium is wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers, gelatin, glass and bone glue beads, cloth, metallic thread, horsehair, hemp, silk threads, paint, and shellac varnish. It is a part of the department.

The Juglans regia is native to the Balkans, but the tree is known as Persian or English walnut. The seeds have been used for cooking since antiquity and are appreciated for their taste and nutritional values. Designers have coveted the wood for furniture and architectural elements for centuries.

It is credited Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

An earthenware pitcher with a squat bulbous gourd-like form with a large leaf-shaped spout and handle in the form of a gathered root or vine. The pitcher has an eosin-reduced glaze, creating freeform, non-figural color patterns on its sinuous ceramic body in a vibrant green and gold iridescent luster finish.

Leaf Pitcher
earthenware, eosin glaze.
Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
2007-3-1

Print, Design for a Silver Platter
engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-300-3

Sidewall, Garden Flowers
screen printed.
Gift of The Wallpaper Magazine.
1953-198-7

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 38.1 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm (15 × 8 × 8 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Botanical Lessons.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUqxK/
Accession Number 22.2018.8
Object ID 2318793585