Wooden tea chest w/ blue paper liner inside w/ oak leaf print. Opens w/ one sliding piece on top. Marquetry box. Complex geometric designs on outside w/ multi-colored pieces. Primarily tan, brown and green. Triangular sections on sides.
boxes (containers)
marquetry
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Marquetry
BOX
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
5.75 x 7.5 x 5.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.2292
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].