The century vase, made in sterling silver by the Gorham M'f'g Co., silversmiths, Broadway and 19th street, New York, (Works at Providence, Rhode Island) : to commemorate the completion of the first century of the Republic of the United States of America
This is a plate-book catalogue issued in 1876 by the Gorham Manufacturing Company of New York and Providence, presenting its sterling silver Century Vase commissioned to mark the first hundred years of the United States. The pictures are photographic reproductions of repoussé chased panels and figure groups in silver, with dense relief detail, cherubs, fruit clusters, flowers and a lion-riding child, offering designers examples of nineteenth-century allegorical ornament and high-relief silver modelling.
