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Pantry Box

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1840-1890

GUSN

GUSN-2137

Description

Oval form with fitted lid, five tapering swallowtail finger laps, painted blue-green (slate blue).

Details

Descriptive Terms

storage boxes
cookware
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Painted
Shaker
Bentwood
BOX, FOOD-STORAGE

Inscription

Ink script on paper label on underside: ""S-227 $8.50"".

Associated Building

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

Additional Identification Number

1991.148A,B

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 9 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.148AB

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