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Signboard

Date

1790-1820

GUSN

GUSN-2669

Description

Square format with two-handled gold vase with flowers; mounted on 2 scrolls with foliage and 2 outward facing swans; band of yellow-brown at base and green stripe enclosing the whole.

Details

Descriptive Terms

signboards
oil paint (paint)
panels (wood)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Wood
Oil on Panel
Sign, Trade

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

22 x 21 1/2 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.892

Places

Rhode Island (United States)

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