- 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 , plaster and paint on cement
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 9 13/16 × 8 3/8 × 3 3/16 in. (25 × 21.2 × 8.1 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 off-white cement. Approximately three-quarters of the back of the fragment is covered in stucco. The stucco has four, raised parallel lines running down the surface. It is tan in color with a large area of black discoloration at the top half of the fragment. Between the cement and the stucco layers is a thin layer of bright white plaster. The decorative surface is a very thick layer of a fine cementitious material finished in a gray paint wash. There is a dark hair embedded in the finished surface at the center of the fragment. The fragment’s profile is thin at the top and widens at the base. It has a cavetto molding at the top followed by a thumb molding below. There is a wide cavetto at the center flanked by two thin hallows at the top and bottom. Below is a beak molding that terminates in a partial cavetto molding. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R174], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white painted on the bottom left side of the fragment’s decorative side. The edges of the fragment are jagged and rough on all four sides.
- 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
- 2017.108.21.45
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




