Round bentwood form with fitted straight-sided cover secured with finger-lap on conforming box with straight lap secured with iron tacks. Painted red.
cheese boxes
cookware
bentwood
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
Pine
Oak
Bentwood
Painted
Box, Cheese
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.374A,B
Unknown
3 3/8 (H), 6 3/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.374AB
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