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1705-1750
GUSN-2550
Carved from horn with long, swelled handle with a whistle on the end and finger grip; elegant circular pouring cup carved on back with Queen Anne/early Georgian style shell motif.
punch ladles
carving (processes)
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
shell (animal material)
Horn
Carved
Queen Anne
Shell
Ladle, Punch
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
3 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.678
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