- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Old Slave Mart Museum, American, founded 1937
- Acacia Historical Arts International, Inc., American, founded 1989
- Date
- before 1863
- Medium
- brick , stucco , portland cement and lime on cement
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 4 3/4 × 14 7/16 × 7 7/8 in. (12 × 36.7 × 20 cm)
- Description
- A molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment has a cement body. Above the cement is a thick decorative layer of an off-white portland cement, finished in a coat of plaster with a lime wash. On the back is a band of stucco at the top of the fragment. The stucco that has a tiny amount of red brick adhered to the surface in one spot. The exposed cement below the stucco has impressions of horizontal bands running across the surface. The fragment’s profile is a flat top with fillet that has broken off on the right edge. Below, at the center of the profile, is an ovolo molding. The bottom of the fragment terminates in a narrow, but deep, step. The flat top of the fragment is mostly intact. The bottom and side edges are broken and jagged. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R170], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white painted in the bottom left corner of the fragment’s decorative side.
- Place used
- Charleston, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Place collected
- Charleston, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Buildings and Structures
- Topic
- American South
- Architecture
- Building Arts
- Skilled labor
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2017.108.21.41
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




