- On View
- Making a Way Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Used by
- Dr. Ben Carson, American, born 1951
- Date
- 1994
- Medium
- wood, lacquer, and mother of pearl
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 4 1/8 × 26 5/16 × 3 3/8 in., 4 lb. (10.5 × 66.8 × 8.6 cm, 1.8 kg)
- Description
- This desktop nameplate is made from black laquered wood with mother of pearl insets. Text in mother of pearl runs across the center of the nameplate that reads "Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D.". The text is bordered by a decorative floral vine in mother of pearl, with two (2) dragons inside the border on the left and right sides of the text.
- Place made
- South Korea, Asia
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment-Occupational
- Type
- nameplates
- Topic
- Medicine
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD
- Object number
- 2012.73.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.