"Flora" Busk

Mediumwhale skeletal bone

Dimensions1 3/4 × 5/8 × 14 in. (4.4 × 1.6 × 35.6 cm)

Object number1994.45.1

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionPabone busk, rounded top and bottom, polychrome engraved one side only; vignettes (top to bottom): two intertwined hearts framed by a wreath with leaves and little colored flowers; three-quarter length female figure with arms crossed in front and off-shoulder gown, necklace, bracelets on each wrist, stippled background, inscribed below " FLORA," with boughs and little colored flowers above and below; plant in a diamond motif pot, framed by a wreath with yellow flowers; standing figure of a gentleman in swallow-tail coat and holding top hat, stippled background, with boughs and little red flowers above and below; bow with two crossed arrows; bough with blue flowers.

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