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Round bentwood form with fitted cover with single "fingered" lap. Box with single wide "fingered" lap; a "Harvard" lap configuration (one pointing right, one pointing left). Painted dark green; top decorated with circular, light green, reserve with polychrome sprig of roses enclosed by darker green ring.
boxes (containers)
cookware
bentwood
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
floral patterns
rose (genus)
Pine
Oak
Painted
Bentwood
Rose
Box, Spice
Ink in script at underside of cover: Richmond. August, 1799
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.373A,B
Unknown
2 3/4 (H), 7 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.373AB
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