Supported Top

71-18-42

From: United States of America (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Historic

Object Number 71-18-42
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience United States of America (uncertain)
Section Historic
Materials Wood
Description

Pear shaped wooden body; stiff steel wire as axis; 4 cm as peg, 10 cm as stem. The bracket appears to be a pieces of electrical spaghetti, but the fit on the stem is closer than desireable. The top has a circumferential depression on which is placed loosely a ring of steel wire. The use of this wire is unknown; the top cannot function with the ring in place.

Credit Line Gift of Smithsonian Institution, 1971

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