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Ginger box

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

GUSN

GUSN-224610

Description

Red and black ginger box. The lid has the design of part of a chinese house and garden and mountains in the back ground. The edge is black and the outside edge is striped black and red. The body of the box is red with yellow writing.

Details

Descriptive Terms

boxes (containers)
packaging
tin (metal)
Box

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

FD183

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2 2/16 x 6 2/16 x 3 12/16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.1629

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