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A two-handled small punch cup made of horn that has been carved and turned on a lathe. There is incised banding on the outside of the bowl. The handle is flat and outstretched from the bowl- as in a porringer.
punch cups
carving (processes)
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
incising
turning (shaping process)
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
Horn
Carved
Turned
Incised
CUP, PUNCH
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
5.5 x 2.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.461
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