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Carved interior pilaster cap with original gilt and green paint. Newspaper article from the Daily Kennebec Journal dated Oct. 15, 1879 glued to back.
capitals (column components)
wood (plant material)
paint (coating)
carving (processes)
gilding
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"Among the relics found in the Cony Academy building by Mrs. James Howard...was the cap of a pilaster which once existed in the parlor or other apartment of the ancient mansion house of Gov. Hutchinson at Milton, Mass...." (Newspaper article)
Original To Governor Thomas Hutchinson House,
Unknown
5 1/2 x 19 3/4 x 5 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Given in honor of Abbott Lowell Cummings
1985.653
Massachusetts (United States)
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