Silver Christening Bowl

Silver Christening Bowl by Paul Ward

Medium

pen and ink on paperboard

Dimensions

overall: 22.9 x 29.1 cm (9 x 11 7/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 5 3/8" high; 6 7/8" in diameter

Classification

Index of American Design

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Index of American Design

Accession Number

1943.8.13875

About the Artist

Paul Ward

Paul Ward was an American artist who contributed to the Index of American Design during the New Deal era, creating detailed watercolor renderings of American decorative objects that are now held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His documented works include Lamp and Camphene Lamp, both rendered in watercolor and graphite on paperboard and created between 1935 and...

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