Vase
Date:
c. 1920
Medium:
Sterling silver, gold
Dimensions:
height: 12 in.
30.5 cm
30.5 cm
Credit Line:
Gift of George G. Booth
Object number:
bc20.1
Hexagonal silver vase with a band of damascened gold ornament overlaid and beaten into the silver midway from the base in a rhododendron pattern. On the neck of the vase is an inscription in raised gold letters: If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
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