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Pantry Box

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1830-1870

GUSN

GUSN-2141

Description

Shaker cheese or spice box: round bentwood form with fitted cover, straight laps held with copper tacks, ochre stain (paint), interior of box also painted.

Details

Descriptive Terms

storage boxes
cookware
painting (coating)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Maple
Pine
Painted
Shaker
Bentwood
BOX, FOOD-STORAGE

Associated Building

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

Additional Identification Number

1991.152A,B

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3 1/4 (H), 9 1/5 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.152AB

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