Gardner Crest Smart Vase Cube

This bud vase is etched with the corporate seal of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, designed by Gardner’s friend, prominent Boston artist Sarah de St. Prix Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) in 1900. Mrs. Gardner chose the motto ‘C’est mon plaisir’ – ‘It’s my pleasure’ – to adorn the Museum’s crest and seal, which were registered in the Museum’s articles of incorporation in December of that year. Isabella also requested the motto's inscription over the central portal of the Museum.

The small, tubular vase is ideal for a single flower or other tiny plants. It can also function perfectly as a diffuser by putting aroma oil and sticks inside the clear tube. The cube is made from natural wood, and fits with the small vase. A magnet is embedded in the wood cube, so you can put it on any metallic surface, like a fridge door.

Measures 7" 
Glass vase with magnetic wood block

Sarah Wyman Whitman (Lowell, Massachusetts, 1842 - 1904, Boston), Crest of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: C'est Mon Plaisir, about 1900. Sandstone. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.