Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 4 objects tagged adventure.

A close-up detail of a circle located near the top left portion of a voluminous, horizontal mural, showing in muted color and centered on a man, Graham McNamee, standing in front of a microphone next to transmission towers. McNamee was the first sports announcer to do play-by-play reporting for Major League Baseball. Zigzag lines radiate outward from the towers. The inner circle is surrounded by a larger, segmented circle emphasizing sports and spectacles of the early twentieth century. Above McNamee is a referee is flanked by boxers. To the right is a divider with the word 'pageant.' Clockwise to the right is a scene of a crowd behind a medieval banner, facing a pedestal with several waving flags. Another divider states, in opposite directions, the words 'Spectacles' and 'Races.' The next scene near the bottom depicts the America’s Cup yacht races of September 1899. Following dividers annotating 'Yacht' and 'Stratosphere' is a manned stratostat balloon being held by several coat-wearing figures and a crowd in the background. Above the circle in arched arrangement, reads 'Broadcasting News Events.'

Mural Detail, The World of Radio, 1934
cotton.
Gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of Jessica Dragonette.
s-e-2263

A jam pot and lid fabricated from molded cream colored glazed earthenware in the form of a caravan. The body is an oblong form with impressions of one large window on the side toward the back with three smaller horizontally placed windows just below the roof on the side and a door with a window right of center of the trailer. A single tire is placed on the bottom in between the door and larger window with a silver glazed hubcap. On the rear is a licence plate that reads “JAM 42” and at the bottom a shiny silver tone glaze in a v-shape extends around the camper in a horizontal line below midpoint. The top also has a silver line around its edge. The lid or roof of the caravan has an impression of a window protruding on a vertical that is centrally located and functions as the handle of the lid facing to the rear. Toward the back is a small opening for a possible spoon to be inserted. The image is photographed so the object appears in an isometric view seeing back, side and top at the same time against a light gray ground.

Jam Pot And Lid, ca. 1945
molded and glazed earthenware.
Gift of Rosemary B. Corroon.
1983-57-2-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

A round, white, porcelain plate. In the center a mouse, dressed in a pale blue striped shirt and bright pink shorts with turquoise spots, dives into water from a craggy, brown rock with green reeds growing from it. Another mouse swims to catch a falling purple gress and straw hat on the left, and a the hands of a third mouse can be seen emerging from the water on the right, with suggestions of splashes its hands. The plate is edged with a gold decorative border.

Plate (France)
porcelain, enamel decoration.
Museum purchase through bequest of Dona Guimaraes and from Decorative Arts....
1993-124-1

This object was made by Pillivuyt & Cie.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Plate (France)
porcelain, enamel decoration.
Museum purchase through bequest of Dona Guimaraes and from Decorative Arts....
1993-124-2

This object was made by Pillivuyt & Cie.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.