Wooden cheese box painted green with lapped sides screwed with convex nails. Fitted cover with sunburst and three concentric "pinwheel" bands.
cheese boxes
cookware
bentwood
carving (processes)
handmade
wood (plant material)
sunbursts
Wood
Bentwood
Handmade
Carved
Sunburst
Pinwheel
Box, Cheese
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.355A,B
Unknown
5 1/4 (H), 11 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.355AB
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