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Cheese Box with Cover

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1800-1860

GUSN

GUSN-2357

Description

Round bentwood form with fitted straight-sided cover secured with finger-lap on conforming box with straight lap secured with iron tacks. Painted red.

Details

Descriptive Terms

cheese boxes
cookware
bentwood
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
Pine
Oak
Bentwood
Painted
Box, Cheese

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

1991.374A,B

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3 3/8 (H), 6 3/8 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.374AB

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