Economic Botany Artifacts, Prints and Posters Artifacts from the Nash Lecture Hall Biological Museum, Harvard University Ivory and Silver

Economic Botany Artifacts, Prints and Posters
Ivory and Silver Collection

Container List:

Series I: Amber and Amberoid
Series II: Ivory & Silver
Series III: Potato Prints
Series IV: German Botany Teaching Posters
Series V: Maps, Posters, Prints, and Photographs
Series VI: Lacquer

Series II: Ivory & Silver

Box 6:

Ivory

One ivory carving of a banana 16cm long x 4.5 cm wide (with wooden rest) - Originally obtained in
India, gift of Oakes Ames October, 1946 [Musa sapientum]
One ivory carving of a persimmon branch with 3 leaves and two fruit, 26cm in length- gift of Oakes Ames [Diospyros kaki]
One ivory carving of a persimmon branch with no leaves and 1 fruit, 19 cm in length- gift of Oakes Ames [Diospyros kaki]
One ivory carving of a persimmon- gift of Oakes Ames [Diospyros kaki]
One ivory carving of an english walnut- Gift of Donald B. Hyde, March 1947 [Juglans regia]
One ivory netsuke. Seated woman in orange kimono. 1 in.
One ivory netsuke. Kneeling man in green robe with fan. 1 in.
One ivory netsuke. Striding Buddah with large bag of scrolls. 2 in. height and 3 in. length

Sterling Silver (all items fashioned by Mary Walker of Bloomington, Illinois)

Pendant with 14k gold accent and cluster of small, clear, green stones, 4 inches long, undated.
Pendant in the shape of a maple seed pod holding a brown stone veined in white and red, 5 3/4 inches, undated.
Pin with pearl accents, 3 1/2 inches, dated 1967.
Pin with pearl and 14k gold accents, 3 inches, undated.
Two part sterling pendant, 4 inches, undated.
Pin with clear brown stone, 4 inches.
Pendant with green, blue, and yellow enamle, 6 inches.
Ring with a clear brown stone.
Gold ring with pearl and stone accents.

Other

Chinese porcelain snuff bottle, blue with red stopper.
Chinese light green jade snuff bottle, monkeys eating grapes. Stopper is broken.
Massachusetts Horticultural Society Medal. Presented to Botanical Museum, March 16, 1939.
Charm from the Port College of Liberal Arts, Boston.
Silver necklace with Torah charm.
Statuette, 5 inches high, gold tone. Figure is of a seated woman with ornamental headdress. She is holding two canisters. Headdress pulls out revealing large pin. Small back hanger on back of neck as well.
Unidentified ingot, 1 inch in diameter.

Series III: Potato Prints

Plate Number	Flower Color	Tuber Features	Notes
"No."	violet	spherical, rose
1	lavender	spherical, white
2	violet	spherical, white
3	flower bud only	globular, white
4	flower bud only	ellipsoid, knob, white	missing
5	light blue	ellipsoid, white
6	blue	ellipsoid, white
7	violet	spherical, rose, white spots
9	flower buds only	spherical, light rose
10	light blue	spherical, white
11	bright blue	spherical, white
12	white	ellipoid, white	with microtuber
13	bright blue	spherical, white
14	rose-violet	elongate, rose
15	blue	spherical, grey-brown
16	ruffled white	globular, tan
18	blue-violet	spherical, light clay
19	rose-violet	globular, red-rose
20	white	elongate, knobby, clay
21	white	elongate, multiple tubers, clay
22	dirty white	globular, brown-violet
23	large, white	elongate, white
24	rose-violet	spherical, pink
25	dirty blue	curved, pink
26	lavender-violet	spherical, rose
27	lavender-violet	spherical, white
28	"fluffy", white	sperical, white
29	white	sperical, white
30	rose-lavender	small, rose
31	dirty blue	sperical, clay-pink
32	rose-lavender	spherical, clay-pink
33	light blue	3 sperical, rose-brown
34	blue	elongate, small, knobby
35	bright blue	elongate, small, knobby
36	blue-lavender	ellipsoid, pink
37	no flower or buds	sperical, white
38 C	blue	sperical, purple-brown
39 E	white	spherical, white
40 D	rose	sperical white
41	light blue	ellipsoid, large, white	(Neage weten)
42	purple	elongate, white	(vo eg blon bloem)
43	white	oblong, white	(witbloen O)
44	blue-violet	elongate, white	(NOO)
45	purple	square, rough, whtie
46	light blue	spherical, purple
47	violet-rose	spherical, white
48	light blue	double, contorted, clay
49	white-rose	globular, white
50	rose-violet	elongate, pink
51	whitish lavender	globular, purple
52	dirty white	elongate, curved, lavender
53	purple-blue	oblong, white
54	purple	oblong, bicolor:purple/gray
55	rose-lavender	elongate, pink
56	purple	triangular, pink
57	large, blue	globular, tan-pink
58	blue-rose	spherical, tan
59	purple	barrel-shaped with microtubers, flesh-gray
60	purple	elipsoid, dirty pink
61	white	elongate, small, hooked, pink
62	rose-violet	spherical, knobby, white
63	violet	spherical with knob, brown
64	no flower or buds		image cropped
65	no flower or buds		image cropped
66	light rose	ellipisoid, white
67	no flower or buds		image cropped
68	no flower or buds		image cropped
69	no flower or buds		image cropped
70	no flower or buds		image cropped
71	no flower or buds		image cropped
72	no flower or buds		image cropped
73	white	large cluster, white
74	no flower or buds		image cropped
75	no flower or buds		image cropped
76	violet	curved, white
77	blue	square, violet
78	light blue	spherical with knob, white
79	no flower or buds		image cropped
80	blue-lavender	elongate, 2 tubers, purple-pink
81	no flower or buds		image cropped
82	no flower or buds		image cropped
83	rose-violet	very elongate, pink

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