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Fire Bucket

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1800-1815

GUSN

GUSN-2811

Description

Bulbous rim on tapering cylindrical body; painted dark green and decorated with an arched reserve which is painted yellow with a red border which encloses the inscription.

Details

Descriptive Terms

buckets (vessels)
leather
painting (coating)
sewing (process)
Leather
Painted
Machine Sewn
BUCKET, FIRE

Inscription

""Sl ENS MING FR No 10""

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

12 (H), 9.5 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1262

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