Wooden butter mold with six-petal geometric carving.
butter molds
cookware
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
geometric motifs
Treen
Wood
Carved
Mold, Butter
There is a mark in glue or varnish on the reverse of the piece which may have had a label affixed to it at one time.
treen
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4/5 (H), 4 3/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.675
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