Of rectangular form, with a domed hinged lid. Painted a deep orange-salmon and decorated with half circles (lunettes) in black at the edges of the lid sides, base and at the top of the box.
boxes (containers)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
lunettes
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Lunette
BOX
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9.5 x 18.25 x 9.125 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1222
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