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Wooden punch bowl strainer fashioned from a single piece of fruitwood. It has a round bowl with pierced-carved holes at the center. It is balanced with two flat, shaped handles/rests at either side. It is very lightweight.
punch strainers
cookware
carving (processes)
fruitwood
piercing
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
Fruitwood
Pierced
Carved
Turned
Georgian
STRAINER
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
7 x 3 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.519
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