Round bentwood form with single left-pointed lap. Fitted cover held in place by single right-pointed lap. Painted yellow and hand- decorated in blues with compass-starburst design at top and floral sprig at sides. Edged in banding and undulating line motif. Interior painted blue.
spice boxes
cookware
bentwood
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Maple
Painted
Bentwood
Box, Spice
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/4 (H), 4 7/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.375
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