19th Century
GUSN-10652
Wood carving of an egg(?) highlighted with off-white paint at either end and a light brown center which could possibly be worn paint. There is a large crack running across and through all of one side so perhaps this is to be a large walnut?
carvings (visual works)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Carved
Carving
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.544
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