# @newport.mansions on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ2KuaLgFoD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71767202-newportmansions-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/ed75546bff.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-02-11T18:03:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newport Mansions (@newport.mansions) — https://gondola.cc/newport.mansions

## Caption

This Aesthetic Movement silver plate calling card stand from our collection at Chateau-sur-Mer was made around 1880 by the Connecticut-based Derby Silver Company. It takes the form of oak branches – with a perched butterfly along the bottom and a pair of owls at the top – supporting a fan-shaped tray to hold cards. The tray is decorated with an incised bamboo shoot, lily-of-the valley stem, daisies and a musical staff with notes, all on a stamped ground. In keeping with its decoration and use, the tray is inscribed with the pun “Should Owl’d Acquaintance be Forgot.” (Gift of Mrs. Janice Wiseman)

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