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The rectangular reverse-painted glass plate depicts bird perched on a cherry tree branch, backed with crinkled tin foil; the bird reverse painted in polychrome watercolors; the remainng ground is black; enclosed within simple, gilt frame.
pictures (two-dimensional representations)
glass (material)
painting (coating)
tinfoil
Glass
Tinfoil
Painted
PICTURE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10.375 x 13 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1443
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