A small very white ostrich egg finally carved in three motifs. Justice shows a woman with a sword and a child with scales. Fortitude shows a man sitting with a lion in the background. Temperance shows a woman giving a child a drink. All of them are outlined in diamond shaped borders. The top is decorated in a floral pattern with tasseled curtains. The bottom repeats the floral pattern and adds hearts between the motifs. There is a small string hanger in the hole end.
pictures (two-dimensional representations)
glassblowing
carving (processes)
eggshell (animal material)
glass (material)
floral patterns
hearts (motifs)
Eggshell
Blown
Carved
Justice
Fortitude
Temperance
Floral
Heart
PICTURE, EGG
Carved around the top is: Justice, Temperance, Fortitude .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6 x 4 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.958
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