Champagne glass belonging to Etta Moten Barnett: Museum Object and Cultural History
Champagne glass belonging to Etta Moten Barnett: Date: 1994. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Owned by: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a champagne glass with a gold bulb stem. The bowl is tall and narrow with horizontal fluting. At the base of the bowl is a gold sphere encased in glass. The gold bulb leads to the narrow stem that terminates in a wide flat base. On the underside of the base is handwritten text in a white medium “[illegible / Street [?] / [illegible] / 1994.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1994
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
- Type: champagne glasses
- Medium: glass
- Dimensions: H x W: 10 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (25.7 × 7.4 cm)
- Place used: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Broadway Theatre
- Topic: Cooking and dining
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Topic: Women
- Object number: A2022.13.1.15
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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