A slightly domed round cover with turned mushroom-form knop on round, bulbous base with broad shoulders and saucer-like base. Painted and grained in yellow and brown in a dot and shell pattern.
tobacco boxes
graining
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Grained
Turned
Box, Tobacco
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 1/2 (H), 6 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1283
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