Pell Collection of China, Glassware, and Rare Art Objects, NHB

Summary

Exhibition of the Pell Collection of china, glassware, and rare art objects. On display is an elaborately decorated marble topped breakfront, a display case of vases, plates and other ceramics lining a principal corridor paralleling main windows in the National Collection of Fine Arts gallery in the Natural History Building.

Subject

• National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian
• National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
• National Collection of Fine Arts
• Smithsonian Gallery of Art
• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Alfred Duane Pell Collection
• Natural History Building

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

SIA RU312 Box 29 Folder 2 contains over 50 additional pictures of the installation. The original negative number is 22579-A, but that negative has been lost. Shows several display cases flanking a long corridor near outer wall of the NHB

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 15; Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 312 Box 29 Folder 7

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1920s

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Art
• Decoration and ornament
• Exhibitions
• Art--Exhibitions
• Art objects
• Decorative arts

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exhibit

ID Number

2002-10661

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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