Vase
- Object Name:
- Vase
- Object ID:
- 1922.009.08
- Creator:
- Durgin, William B. Company
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1908
- Description:
- Flower vase, silver with gold wash on interior. Also with removable brass cover and metal insert for holding flower stems. Fits in bowl 1922.009.07. The metal insert is an unidentified, ferrous metal. The vase has a deep, narrow cup with slightly flaring rim with two attached pendant rings on a round pedestal base. The exterior is fully decorated with several bands of reeding, the New Hampshire state seal within a laurel wreath, the Navy Department seal within a laurel wreath and laurel swags with rosettes. The bottom of the cup is decorated with acanthus leaves done in repousse work. The pendant rings are oval shaped and fully reeded. The pedestal base is stepped. Stamped on the bottom in upper case Roman letters: "STERLING" incuse. Also stamped on bottom is the script letter "D" within a crowned shield (for the William B. Durgin Company).
OBJECT REGISTER:
.a Vase (see description above)
.b Brass cover - dome-shaped lid cover with open-work circles. No maker's marks seen. Diameter - 4.875", Height - 2".
.c Metal stem holder - base ring with two levels of open metal grid work. Round bottom with approximately square-shaped top. Diameter - 3.375", Height - 1.625". - Material:
- Metal
Silver
Brass
Gold - Dimensions:
- H-10.8 W-6.125 Dia-4.875 inches
- Provenance:
- The U.S.S. New Hampshire was built by the New York Shipbuilding Company and commissioned on March 19, 1908. There were 41 officers and 809 men on board. In 1907 the state legislature appropriated $6,000 for the design and manufacture of a silver service. The William B. Durgin Company of Concord, NH made the service and it was presented to the U.S.S. New Hampshire by Gov. Charles M. Floyd on August 8, 1908 at Portsmouth. The silver service consists of 72 pieces.
The U.S.S. New Hampshire was decommissioned in 1921 as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty and sold for scrap in November 1923. - Credit Line:
- On Loan from the United States Navy Department
- Subjects:
- U.S.S. New Hampshire, Naval ships, Nationalism
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