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Rectangular tray has gently flared edges. Raised decoration of two frogs caught in cattails. Lip design has a leaf motif. Underside has a single frog sitting on a lily pad with water flowers at right.
pen trays
copper (metal)
plate (material)
leaf (plant material)
foliation (pattern)
leaf (metal)
tin (metal)
cattail (material)
flowers (plants)
floral patterns
figure- and animal-derived motifs
frogs (animals)
leaf (plant material)
foliation (pattern)
leaf (metal)
water leaf (motif)
water
Copper Plate
Tin
Leaf
Frog
Lily Pad
Water
Flower
Cattail
TRAY, PEN
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
Asia
0.75 x 3 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1846
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