Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Luce Center
Still bank
Object Number:
1943.397
Date:
1840-1880
Medium:
Stoneware
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 x 2 1/2 in. ( 7.6 x 6.4 cm )
Marks:
printed: on newspaper clipping attached to bank: "How well we remember our Baptist Sunday School and receiving a small terra cotta jug with a slot, and all us little ones are lustily singing: Oh come buy a jugg, the nicest of juggs -/A jugg that knows how
Description:
Wheel-thrown stoneware still bank in the form of a jug with button finial and horizontal slot (for coins); undecorated and covered in red slip.
Credit Line:
Gift of John J. Cornell
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
