Furniture mount with lions drinking from fountain motif - Bard Graduate Center

Chatham Square (1853-55)
Unknown
United States of America
Daguerreotype
3 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (8.9 x 12.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005 (2005.100.173). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY

From the exhibition:

Visualizing 19th-Century New York

Furniture mount with lions drinking from fountain motif

Bard Graduate Center Study Collection, Gift of Patricia and Martin Levy.

Tobacco jar in the form of a bear holding a tree stump (1896)
Terracotta

Inscriptions: “fumus gloria mundi / & forbear / RK / JLK / 1896.” National Trust, Bateman’s, NT 760658. © National Trust Images / John Hammond.

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