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Square frame with molded edge and carved sides; enclosed reverse painted glass with a blue and green checkerboard within a gilt band and polychrome marbleized border; the reverse of board is painted gray; the frame is painted red-brown and black.
gameboards (board game elements)
carving (processes)
glass (material)
painting (coating)
reverse painting on glass (image-making)
Glass
Painted
Carved
Board, Game
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
12.5 x 12.5 x 1.25 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1442
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