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Small circular ceramic box with three feet and lid with turtle finial. Dark blue exterior glaze and bright green interior glaze, turtle finial is also green. Nannie Borden Phillips mark on box bottom.
boxes (containers)
clay
Box, Trinket
NBP/3 (Text inscribed inside diamond shaped box)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Phillips, Nannie Jencks (Borden), 1877-1963 (Maker)
2 (H), 4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2257AB
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