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Pantry Box

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1830-1880

GUSN

GUSN-2140

Description

Oval benwood form with fitted lid, two tapering laps (Harvard style: one pointed left, one pointing right), held with brass tacks; painted green.

Details

Descriptive Terms

storage boxes
cookware
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Maple
Pine
Painted
Shaker
Bentwood
Box, Food-storage

Associated Building

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

Additional Identification Number

1991.151A,B

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 3/4 x 4 x 3 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.151AB

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