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1840-1860
GUSN-2350
A tapering, round, staved form with flat, fitted cover; "fingered" lap on bucket with arched swing handle hold with "button"-shaped wood pegs. Two-fingered hoop laps secured with brass tacks hold staves of bucket. All painted dingy yellow.
buckets (vessels)
cookware
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
staves (boards)
pine (wood)
Pine
Oak
Painted
Staved
FIRKIN
Pencil under cover: B-/5-/Aug 37 Pencil at base: 5759/356-
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9.625 (H), 9.875 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.367
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