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Fire Bag

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1795

GUSN

GUSN-2660

Description

Handwoven oblong bag.

Details

Descriptive Terms

buckets (vessels)
cloth
hand weaving
stenciling
Synthetic Fabric
Stenciled
Woven
BUCKET, FIRE

Inscription

Stencilled on the bucket is: ""No 1/Edwd Davis, Ju, /1795""

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

48.75 x 24.75 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.882

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