- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Old Slave Mart Museum, American, founded 1937
- Acacia Historical Arts International, Inc., American, founded 1989
- Date
- before 1863
- Medium
- stucco , hair , plaster and lime on cement
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 4 11/16 × 7 1/2 × 1 7/8 in. (11.9 × 19 × 4.8 cm)
- Description
- A molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment’s body is composed of cement. Above it is thick decorative layer that is finished in a coat of plaster with a lime wash. There is a large patch of stucco on the back of the fragment that has a tiny amount of brick adhered to the surface in the bottom left corner. The stucco also has embedded reddish hairs of varying thicknesses. The back has an impression of a basket weaving pattern on the surface of the cement and there are diagonal hash marks impressions in the stucco. The fragment’s profile is a flat top above a thick thumb molding. Below, at the center of the profile, is a wide fillet that slopes into a concave hallow at the bottom of the fragment. The thumb molding has a large loss on the right side. The top, bottom, and side edges of the fragment are Brocken and jagged. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R171], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white painted in the bottom left corner of the fragment’s decorative side. There is an “X” written in graphite near the bottom center.
- 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
- 2017.108.21.42
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




