A Newcomb College Art Pottery Matte Glaze Vase, 1933, decorated by Henrietta Bailey with green royal palm on a blue ground, base marked with Newcomb cipher, decorator's mark and reg. no. UP49, height 7 in. E4000-6000 Note: The palm tree held extraordinary significance for Ellsworth Woodward, who exclaimed in his Suggestions for Beautifying the Grounds of Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, "No trees are so ornamental and distinctive as the Palm."