Gold wine glass belonging to Etta Moten Barnett: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a gold-colored wine glass belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. It consists of a gold-colored conical shaped bowl with a diagonal ridges in the glass swirling down towards the base of the bowl. At the base is a small clear ring of glass, followed by three gold colored glass globes that reduce in size as they descend in towards the base. Between them and the base are three clear glass rings stacked on top of each other. The base is gold colored with a swirling pattern. There is an illegible signature etched into the underside of the base.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2004
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Owned by: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
• Type: wine glasses
• Medium: glass
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 11 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (28.6 × 8 × 8 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: A2022.13.1.50
• 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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