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1900-1950
GUSN-11468
A splint woven wastebasket with vertical overlays on the outside. It has a decoratively woven top rim and is painted black with an iris motif in greens, blues, yellow and red.
wastebaskets
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
weaving
floral patterns
Woven
Painted
Splint
Iris
Wood
Wastebasket
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 3/4 x 11 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.690
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