Porcelain mortar with porcelain and wood pestle; mortar has pouring spout and small base.
mortars (grinding tools)
pestles
cookware
porcelain
wood (plant material)
Porcelain
Wood
Mortar & Pestle
1) Cast on bottom: ""5/72"" [the 5 over the 72]. 2) Another covered by NFL jelly label: ""From Dr. John Green. Worcester / pestle: 0000"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.221A,B
Unknown
2 x 3 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.221AB
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