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Box

Collection Type

  • Household accessories

Date

1800-1820

GUSN

GUSN-2208

Description

Small, painted in yellow enamel; black, brown and blue striping off-white border, around grisaille landscape showing house, trees, grass and fence at water's edge; interior painted blue; bottom washed in black; hinged lid.

Details

Descriptive Terms

boxes (containers)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Painted
Wood
Box, Trinket

Inscription

Jelly jar label on bottom: ""358 2.00"".

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 2 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.209

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