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Ceramic still bank molded to look like a large orange (or a grapefruit), with bumpy orange-peel texture and deep ochre yellow paint; large slot near top.
banks (containers)
earthenware
molding (forming)
painting (coating)
fruit
Earthenware
Painted
Molded
Fruit
BANK, STILL
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
3.5 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.418
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