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Wax Fruit

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1800-1900

GUSN

GUSN-11469

Description

1991.691.1- a large apple with a twisted paper stem and dipped in a reddish color. .2- a large plum that has been dipped in varying shades of purplish-red. .3- a green pear with a paper stem. .4- a small yellow banana with a brown and green end. .5- a large apple with a paper stem, dipped in a reddish color. .6- a pear, dipped in shades of pink. .7- a large peach in pink,shaded light to dark. .8- a bunch of white grapes on a wire and paper stem.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fruit
artificial
molding (forming)
wax
Wax
Molded
FRUIT, WAX

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.691.1-8

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