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Small, painted, scenic design in rectangular shape throughout; painted blue interior; hinged lid; painted in yellow enamel; bordered in black, brown and blue stripping with an off white border around en griseille; the bottom is washed in black; landscape showing light house on island with shore and bush in foreground.
boxes (containers)
borders (ornament areas)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
scenes (depictions)
Wood
Painted
Bordered
scenic
Rectangular
Box, Trinket
Jelly label on bottom: 355 2.00
Rectangular
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
1 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 2 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.844
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